I try not to worry about any of it except for the possibility that someone might
be making huge amounts of money from something I've done.  I'd guess that would
be the sentiment of most anyone.
It would have to be more than coinage and dollar bills too though.

Bob

"Glen Berry" <7no### [at] ezwvcom> wrote in message
news:02qwOFwCACVzmNuIIhFA93G01sNJ@4ax.com...
| On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:51:38 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
|
| >I'm not sure that this gives the POV-Team any rights to further distribute
| >our work or the messages posted here but it seems possible that it might.
|
| I don't get that impression from that statement at all. In fact, it
| makes me wonder how the POV-Team could own the copyrights to mine and
| other people's comments. I think they don't have the rights to
| re-publish what I, or others, have said here without permission.
|
| For a moment, I considered that perhaps this is considered a public
| forum and the comments part of some sort of public record, but they
| claim in the above statement that this is a *private* forum, and seem
| to claim ownership of the contents.
|
| Don't get me wrong, I'm not upset about anything here. I'm just not
| sure how much ownership they might have over comments and concepts
| expressed by myself or others. Under US law, I own the copyright to
| anything I create, from the moment of it's creation, unless I decide
| to transfer all or part of those rights to another party. However,
| this is an international forum, and that is sure to complicate things
| in ways I can't predict. Personally, I would never publish anything
| here that I considered a valuable secret anyway.
|
| I don't care too much at this point if we lose the older messages. It
| might be nice to keep an eternal archive of old files, but eventually
| the storage space would be an issue again, even if we were to solve it
| for the moment.  Nothing lasts forever, and sometimes holding onto the
| past gets in the way of one's future.
|
| later,
| Glen Berry

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