COPY of my email to the Connecticut Attorney General

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Below is a copy of an email I sent to the Attorney General. If anyone else

wishes to write, his email address is: attorney.general

 

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I know that you are interested in protecting the rights of consumers on the

Internet.

 

I am a member of several mailing lists at / where I

chat by posting messages with other people who share my interests. This site

used to be called www. until it was taken over by , which

then made the following announcement, laying claim to all written material

posted on its site:

 

Egroups.com is now owned by .com. A clause in .com's terms of

service entitles them to own copyright of each list's content:

 

> <<© With respect to all other Content [N.B., the exception made in an

> earlier paragraph is only for graphics] you elect to post to other

> publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant the

> royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully

> sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt,

> publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform

> and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to

> incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now

> known or later developed. " >>

 

My question is this: Can claim perpetual and irrevocable copyright to

everything I happen to post in an online group at www.? Do I have

no rights to my own thoughts and original ideas if I happen to post them on

's site? Does need to post more boldly that it is laying claim to

anything one writes at its site?

 

I look forward to your reply.