Re: Copyright Infringement Happening at Conference Group - Help!

On 15, July 1998, Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> On 7/14/98, Thomas Workman <tworkman[_at_]erols.com> wrote:
> >
> > John Lederer <johnl[_at_]ibm.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Would you like to take a stab at explicating why someone taking
> > > something off the web violates copyright, but your repeating of
> > > the entirety of Brigid's message does not?
> >
> > Fair use. When one sends an Email, one issues a fair use license
> > for others to forward it withor without comment. That is the nature
> > of the medium.
>
> I don't think I agree, at least not with the outer bounds of what
> you're saying. First, I think it's more likely that when one copies
> e-mail in a discussion list and sends it *to the list* that this is
> implied license rather than fair use. Second, as with any implied
> license, the scope of it may not be crystal clear. I doubt that
> many would argue that copying it within the list is implied, but
> I'm not as sure that the consensus would be as strong for copying
> it without the list. And if you're talking about e-mail in general,
> I would strongly disagree that sending one person's e-mail to others
> without permission is fair use or implied license.

Since this started with me, can someone explain why merely repeating something to a list of recipients who have already received it constitutes "copying"?

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<mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> Received on Thu Jul 16 1998 - 13:27:37 GMT