RE: Letters from Government Officials

protected from what?? If it isn't a classified communication, then what would stop your colleague. now it may not be advisable to publish it (an official communication from your state's bar is something you might not want ot publish, for example). The official certainly has no copyright in the communication.

Harold Federow

-----Original Message-----

From: Dodi Schultz [mailto:SCHULTZ[_at_]compuserve.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 4:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Letters from Government Officials

A colleague, having received a letter from a government official, wonders if such a communication is protected, or if publishing it (on the Web or elsewhere) is permissible without seeking the official's permission.

This was evidently a letter addressed to the particular individual, not a general announcement or mass mailing.

--Dodi Schultz
Received on Fri Dec 28 2001 - 16:58:16 GMT