Re: copyrighting of an email

On 04/25/97, Robert Cumbow <CUMBR[_at_]perkinscoie.com> said:
>
> You can do what you want with the digital copy you "own"--including
> print a copy of it and/or retain it in your archives; but you can't
> forward it because "forwarding" in this context doesn't mean giving
> your copy to someone else, it means making and distributing a new
> copy, which is expressly impermissible under copyright law. BTW, I
> never said the analogy between paper mail and email was exact ... it's
> just the only thing we've got to work from right now as far as
> determining how copyright law works with respect to email.

Does anyone else find a certain Kafkaesque touch in the fact that those who point out that copying of email is a copyright violation usually copy the prior email in their comments so as to maintain the thread of thought?

Maybe our copyright system needs an overhaul?

Regards,

John Lederer
<johnl[_at_]ibm.net>

Oregon, Wisconsin
(Where grass now grows faster than I can change the tractor's snowblower for the mower deck) Received on Mon Apr 28 1997 - 13:27:36 GMT