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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Stan, Stan, Stan.....
- Message-ID: <Bxo10K.4M7@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1992Nov13.045230.17022@col.hp.com> <1992Nov13.164557.12423@sei.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:38:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.045230.17022@col.hp.com>, Dan Kary writes:
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- |> ...It turns out that when you receive postal mail it is your
- |> property to do with as you wish.
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- rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) writes:
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- >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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- By analogy, if you buy the book _Catch 22_, the book is your property.
- You can burn it, sell it, and show it to others privately. The
- copyright, however, is not yours. This prevents you from republishing
- it, copying it, or giving a public reading of it (except from what
- fair use allows).
-
- - Carl
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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