Author: Amir Ban
Date: 01:14:07 04/05/03
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On April 04, 2003 at 22:26:02, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 04, 2003 at 16:58:31, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On April 04, 2003 at 13:36:23, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>> >>>Correct. Also, I did not reproduce the emails in whole, instead I quoted from >>>them. I had some interest in preserving the author's copyright. If hairs are >>>split, it may be found that I was a little loose with this, but on the other >>>hand, the email to me also contained copyrighted material (the "art"). >>> >> >>You are crazy if you are going to be defensive about this. I don't know where >>the posters of this newsgroup got the queer notion that publishing an email or >>letter you received is not legal, or a breach of copyright. It's not. A letter >>you received is your property to do whatever you want with it. > >This is actually wrong. The author of the email actually holds the copyright >as the originally wrote it. IE if I write a paper and send you a draft to >review you can _not_ publish it yourself. This has been tested in usenet >newsgroups on more than one case. > Copyright and generally IP rights are about using or taking credit for something created by another. There's no such issue here. You can send me a nobel prize winning paper and if I post it here and say "Bob wrote me this" it's prefectly ok. You can ask me to keep it secret, but you'd better clear this with me before sending, because I don't have to agree. Publishing private latters can be embarassing and a breach of confidence between friends, but that's not illegal, and there is no confidence here to start with. Amir
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