Re:AOL can use copyrighted material w/o compensati (Score 1)

Actually, the two are quite different. You still own, and can still sell your intellectual property (copyright, patent) that you have sent over AIM, but you cannot sell an exclusive right to your property as you have already granted an irrevocable license to AOL. AOL is not asserting that they own it, just that they get to use it as they see fit. It's like having an easement on your land saying that your neighbor can cross to get to his property. Your neighbor owns the right to cross, but doesn't own any portion of your land. Bryan "back to studying for the patent bar" Paschke