Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:41:54 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 18:03:00, James B. Shearer wrote: [snip] > What is your authority for making this claim? I suspect this is not >clearcut and that in any case that you have no practical recourse. I'm not a lawyer, but it's no big secret. From: http://publications.urel.wsu.edu/Copyright/CopyrightInternet/copyrightinternet.html " E-Mail Be aware that e-mail is copyrighted. Web custom and usage would probably allow the forwarding of an e-mail message to a limited number of appropriate and interested parties but posting another's e-mail to a large group such as a Listserve or Usenet group without permission should probably not be done." From the newsgroup FAQ for news:news.newusers.announce: 'Copyright Myths FAQ: 10 big myths about copyright explained' 10) "They e-mailed me a copy, so I can post it." "To have a copy is not to have the copyright. All the E-mail you write is copyrighted. However, E-mail is not, unless previously agreed, secret. So you can certainly *report* on what E-mail you are sent, and reveal what it says. You can even quote parts of it to demonstrate. Frankly, somebody who sues over an ordinary message might well get no damages, because the message has no commercial value, but if you want to stay strictly in the law, you should ask first. On the other hand, don't go nuts if somebody posts your E-mail. If it was an ordinary non-secret personal letter of minimal commercial value with no copyright notice (like 99.9% of all E-mail), you probably won't get any damages if you sue them." See: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html For more information. Quite a bit of detail here, probably your best source of information: http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/copynet.htm
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