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Steven Hay
 
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Derek wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2003, Space Cowboy posted the following to
>
>>All of my posts have an implicit copyright which I stated in
>>this newsgroup soon after it was formed. Any of my ideas which

>
> Actually, anything posted to this group is copyright of the original
> poster - providing said poster either created the post or had the
> right to post it.
> <SNIP>
> In fact, one has to explicity state that something IS public domain
> for it to be so.


So what does this mean for his book? It certainly seems that if someone
post something in a public forum, they are expecting others to see it
freely. As long as a person cites their sources, is there a problem?

Steve