On Tuesday, November 28, 2000, Margaret McCleskey <[email protected]> wrote: > When my parents died, I wrote and submitted to the local newspaper their > obituaries. If there is any copyright here, it should be mine, not the > newspapers. The copyright would be yours, unless you assigned it to the newspaper. You would probably know if you did this, more than likely you didn't. I guess that submission implies consent to publish, much like letters to the editor. In any case, it is copyrighted by somebody. S R C A cott obert ranston nderson [email protected]