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- From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
- Subject: Re: Stan, Stan, Stan.....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.150853.10999@sei.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: The Software Engineering Institute
- References: <Bxo10K.4M7@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:08:53 GMT
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- In article <Bxo10K.4M7@cs.uiuc.edu>, Carl M. Kadie writes:
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- |> rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) writes:
- |>
- |> >I think that this is not the case. For First Class mail, a LETTER is the
- |> >property of the sender, and not the recipient!
- |>
- |> Not so. The letter is the recipient's property. The recipient can burn
- |> it, sell it, and show it to others privately. The copyright, however,
- |> belongs to the sender. This prevents the recipient from publishing it,
- |> copying it, or exhibiting it publically (beyond what fair use allows).
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- Indeed -- I wasn't precise enough. I should have said that the CONTENTS of
- the letter remain the property of the author, and cannot be made public
- without the author's consent. This was the context of the discussion
- regarding the publication of email. It is NOT fair use to post email.
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- Sorry, and thanks for the correction.
-
- Rich
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