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The moment your private words become everyone's business, for better or litigation.
means The act of making something available to the public, or the finished thing itself that gets released.
from From Latin publicare, to make public, rooted in publicus, of the people — the same root that gives us pub, where ideas also become everyone's problem.
Legal triggerDefamation only counts once words are published to others.
Older than printReading scrolls aloud counted as publication for centuries.
Plural twistA scholar's publications measure career, not output quality.