Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>  A message is posted on c.g.r.r. seeking information related to Pov. The
> question is outside my level of experience to answer but I recently saw
> a similar question answered here in the groups. The easy thing to do of
> course would be to simply quote the answer posted here to the question
> on c.g.r.r.. By this copyright restriction am I obligated to take the
> answer from this group and reword it so that it's contents become my
> own ?

We assert 'collection copyright'. Posting an individual article doesn't
violate that. Taking the entire group (as some newsadmins have done) does.

Individual copyright would apply. However, it could be suggested that by
posting to a newsgroup, the user involved expects their message to be
widely viewed. I'd be amazed if anyone actually complained.

-- Chris

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