You specifically supercede from the international Berne convention by
stating the copyright laws under which you publish. It doesn't have to be
the country of your nationality. This is a common practice in the media.
By default it is as you say.

Jim

"Derek" > wrote in message
...
> On 16 Nov 2003, Space Cowboy posted the following to
> rec.food.drink.tea:
>
> > All of my posts have an implicit copyright which I stated in
> > this newsgroup soon after it was formed. Any of my ideas which
> > appear in published form without my permission is a violation of
> > the copyright laws of the US. I don't know what's worse someone
> > fleecing our pockets or our ideas.
>
> 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.
>
> There is no such thing as "implicit" or "explicit" copyright, and
> since 1989, one does not need to declare copyright for text to bey
> copyrighted in the U.S. Berne convention copyright policies are now
> pretty much the standard.
>
> In fact, one has to explicity state that something IS public domain
> for it to be so.
>
> --
> Derek