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Re: Mladen Pejic... Cool down.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:05:32 GMT
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Dave Schuler wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
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> > From a legal standpoint, the author of an e-mail or letter certainly
> > owns copyright, and then any re-publication will be looked from a
> > standpoint of "fair use." I think just about any court would find
> > re-publication of excerpts in an endeavor to understand a threat which
> > is being made is "fair use", even if those threats are not death
> > threats.
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> Good point. "Fair use" probably has a much broader than usual definition
> when applied to interpersonal correspondence. Snail-mail letters are made
> public all the time, often via media "leaks," but they're released
> nonetheless. I'm not sure how the copyright issue applies, since it can also
> be argued that, in mailing me, my correspondent is giving me an item that I
> can then publish or keep private according to my wish.
I think case law supports copyright protection for the author of a
letter (and by extension e-mail).
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) Really? Wow. Do you have any cites? I thought letters were more like phone calls than like authored works. (only one party to a call needs to consent to it being recorded and disseminated) I had always assumed (1) that when I sent words to (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Good point. "Fair use" probably has a much broader than usual definition when applied to interpersonal correspondence. Snail-mail letters are made public all the time, often via media "leaks," but they're released nonetheless. I'm not sure how (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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