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[danial stocks]

>
>2> Some of the commercial-style lists have fairly strict intellectual
>property rules.  Here in DIY-land, we play in some of the grey area
>concering existing designs, analyses about them, and schematic sharing.
>
>The wording of the rules I saw for one of those commectial lists said
>something to the effect that the authors surrendered all rights to anything
>contributed to that list, and transferred those rights to the list host.  I
>dont remember if it was onelist or a different one, but I'm not sure
>everyone here wants to agree to that.

ABSOLUTELY NOT!! As far as I'm concerned intellectual property remains owned 
by the contributor. I'm not willing to accept some microsoft octopus arm 
claiming rights to my ideas or anyone elses for that matter.. I feel this is 
an essential issue which must be solved for everyone's benefit..
Cheers,
Dan
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