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Meat Plow wrote:

What you cite, art and literary works, are published and displayed
with the authors and artists intent as registered copyrights. Posts in
this newsgroup are not under the same protection unless the publisher
issues a disclaimer of registered copyrighted material with each post
of which I've never seen.

Sorry, Meat. Any creative work is protected by copyright law from the
moment of its creation. Letter to Mom, drawing on the napkin at the
diner, or newsgroup post. You do not need to register a copyright to
make it valid, nor do you need to state "this is copyrighted yada yada
yada."