Is there a problem with Copyrights?

The words presented on the site do indeed belong to the authors who post them, but the content belongs to the CR4 site. As such, it can be linked to or quoted within the rules of the "fair use" doctrine, but cannot be lifted wholesale from the site, nor posted or broadcast without proper attribution (a link or spoken URL and title in the case of a podcast). Generally, it's acceptable to quote about three paragraphs worth of text with attribution. Beyond that, even with attribution, it begins to cross the grey line of copyright infringement.

Thanks Chris Leonard. I fully intended to give credit to the author & CR-4.

Wow what a post, never even considered it to be a problem.

I thought it could not be a problem as most info we quote tends to be from the world wide wobbly anyway which is already public domain.....isn't it?

Don't get me wrong, here. We apppreciate when other sites quote CR4 and link to us.

Yeah I did run accross some before. Sometimes they just elaborate after a thread has died or something and then the poster or contributor continues elsewhere.

I also found thread subjects mentioned on science blogs before that were almsot a copy of what we started. Obviously the thread runs in a different direction as we have proper clever contributors here at CR4

I have never mentioned the origins of any material and also never seen any that credits the original! Should we?

I think we should acknowledge good material, doesn't hurt. I like giving credit to those who make a good contribution to any knowledge base forum. I like to mention CR-4 when ever i get the chance because it's a good site.