In article s.com,
DoN. Nichols wrote:

Well ... if the photos are your *own* work, and you post them to
an alt.binaries newsgroup with no restrictive notices, that is pretty
much equivalent to putting them in the public domain.

Wrong. You automatically own copyright to any original work you produce
unless you explicitly put that work into th epublic domain.

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