Re: Concerning the Beagle Brothers freeware archives, graphics andsuch

[Mike Spurgeon <mike@spurgeon.net>]

 On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Phoenyx wrote:
 
 > Perhaps I'm missing something here and I've been around
message
 > forums of one sort or another since the BBS era. As far as I
can
 > tell, this is a public forum as designated by the access
medium.
 > Even when they were first started, they were considered public
 > access mediums. In light of this fact, it stands to reason
that
 > any messages posted here would be in the public domain by
default.
 >
 > While I agree that everyone has the basic right to protect
their
 > intellectual property. One can not complain when they publicly
 > post this property in a known public forum.

You're missing more than 'something'.

Go here:

http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html