Re: ownership of content...

I was reading up lately about copyright - note here that I am not a lawyer, this is offered as food for thought, not advice. The way I understand it, you write it, you own it until you sell/give it. You own what you write, as do I and all the other contributors. We just don't own the storage media, Mudcat does. I wonder if someone knows if a written permission would be needed from each contributor as a legal CYA for Mudcat? One cranky gold-digger can overspend anyone's legal budget in a trice.

Bit of drift: At the 'Cat, each of us can copy our "creations" to our own hard disks for any future use we please. Think, though, of this little absurdity: When I snap a photo, I own the image and the unprocessed film. I take it in for processing...now the photo lab has the only copy of my intellectual(?) property. Are they breaking copyright law by holding my image if I don't want to pay for the prints? Ain't technology grand.