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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Stan, Stan, Stan.....
- Message-ID: <Bxnuwn.IDB@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1992Nov13.001959.958@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1992Nov13.045230.17022@col.hp.com>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:26:47 GMT
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- kary@col.hp.com (Dan Kary) writes:
-
- >While most people who use electronic media think of the media (like
- >email) to be essentially the same thing as the non-electronic thing
- >it replaces (i.e. postal mail). The courts have not always agreed
- >with this.
-
- [Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.]
-
- The copyright law doesn't distinish between a letter on paper and one
- on a computer media. There was once a question about if the law
- covered computer programs, but now it does explicitly.
-
- [...]
- >The point I'm slowly getting to is that while you may wish that recipients
- >of your email will treat it as confidential,
- [...]
-
- Copyright law has never required confidentiality. Instead it prohibits
- things like copying and public performance beyond what is considered
- "fair use". (I've heard lawyers says that a few short letters are
- probably on the borderline of fair use.)
-
- If you want the recipients of your email to treat it as confidential,
- then don't send them any until they sign a nondisclosure agreement.
-
- - Carl
-
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-