the blue quasar:It has always been my understanding that if I create a listing, all of the content including my text and images are protected under the Waymarking Terms of Use and likely by intellectual property laws. With that in mind I have been open to allowing Category Officers the right to make minor edits to my works. Now it appears that anyone can come along and copy, change, modify or take ownership of my content. That does not bode well with me nor do I wish to see the works of my friends in the Waymarking community being regurgitated by others as if their own. In short, I wish to continue to be able to protect my content and not allow it to me augmented or recycled without my consent.
You own your original content. Groundspeak also shares ownership and can modify the content, which would happen in the case of further edits of that content by the community. Whether you own the results of the collaborative effort is a question for the lawyers but my non-lawyer assumption is no.
I understand your interest in protecting your content in the format you initially presented it. I'd suggest making a local copy of that content to preserve it.