> Your work has implicit copyrights, so I'm not sure that any explicit > copyright will address "the problem." I'm not so sure as, along with the copyright notice, I issued the commercial terms under which copying was allowed including level of payments required, and presumably these terms will have been accepted by those whose websites said utterances turn up on. I look forward to a substantially increased income stream in the near future :-). (yeah, right). I was obviously making a point (or trying to) but it will be interesting to see how far that post gets blindly parroted. I imagine it would be wise to have a fil ter that automatically excludes or flags for attention any material containing the word "copyright" or the copyright symbol. > Perhaps the "web 2.0" "collaboration" focus will address the > distribution/reproduction issues that plague the net. For instance, > the http://www.intructables.com site where I've been posting EAGLE > tutorials has an unusually broad selection of licenses to attach to > works, which is at least a first step... Thanks for that link - I'll have a look at the licences. Russell -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist