In a message dated 4/15/2006 1:28:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, clifflamere@nycap.rr.com writes: Distribution is a right of the copyright holder. I disagree with several of your conclusions but the most glaring is the above. Distribution rights don't always go hand in hand with copyright. Take RootsWeb mailing lists for example. We own the copyright to any original text of our emails to list--and yet we grant RootsWeb (per the AUP) the right to distribute and redistribute. Joan