> it's not legally possible to both make a work available to the public and prevent that work from being available for other uses That’s bullshit. Copyright st

> it's not legally possible to both make a work available to the public and prevent that work from being available for other uses That’s bullshit. Copyright still applies to property available to the public. Maybe you are confused between “available to the public” (access) and “in the public domain” (copyright). Listening to a song on the radio doesn’t give you the right to copy it and sell it. You can say the same for other forms of IP. Trademarks, logos, etc are all “available” to the public, but they are still protected IP. When you post to a public website, you are giving access to that content , and (usually) legally giving rights to the website to publish your content. Those rights don’t transfer to a 3rd party.