I should have stated it differently -
They are not yielding copyright, but they are granting license to the
members of the list and any other recipient to use the message in a
multitude of ways.

But IANAL, this is what I've read elsewhere.

-Adam

Byron A Jeff wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:21:14PM -0400, M. Adam Davis wrote:
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>>The only real obstacle to doing this are legal issues.
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>>In theory once a person posts a message to the list they are essentially
>>giving it up to the public domain, and removing any exclusive copyright
>>they had on their message unless they prohibit (through email headers
>>and other means) archiving of their messages.
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>I'd sure like to see that preceedent. My understanding was that all material
>is copyrighted unless explicitly revoked.
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>Legally it's a non issue as long as no one claims infringment. But AFAIK
>(and of course IANAL) even if archived it's still copyrighted.
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>BAJ
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