"Jeff Reid" > wrote in message
news:4RANe.100042$E95.69983@fed1read01...

> First a RSC moderator edits a post of my to delete a link to a widely
> available (back in 2002) video of David Coulthard doing a qualifying
> lap back from 2002. I had a yellow warning avatar attached to all my
> posts, and a private email stating it was because in that moderator's
> opinion, that any video showing a F1 car would be copywrighted. Another
> person posted in a thread asking why I got a yellow warning.
>
> I responded to the moderator that the video in question had been in the
> public domain for a long time,

How do you figure it was in the public domain? I would imagine that most,
if not all, F1 footage from recent years is (c) FOA. For example, see
http://www.f1onboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=6703