This is an excerpt from a discussion regarding how owns what copyrights on discussion lists, and how to be protected if one writes online.
> From: “Douglas M. Max” <dmax@…>
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> As an aside, just to protect each of our subscribers on trdev, you’ll
> notice that there’s a “copyright trdev” notice at the bottom of each post.
> The reality of this is that it’s there to protect you, in case you don’t
> specifically write “copyright Bob Smith” at the bottom of each of your
> posts–the trdev owners, moderators, coordinators will never give
> permission to anyone for any reason to copy any or all of your posts.
> Anyway, each poster on trdev owns the copyright of his or her post.
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