[Coco] Quoting private email

[Juan Castro]

There was NO such notice in the original e-mail.

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> I found this legal analysis at
> http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/courses/fall2003/hpr108Bs1/readings/CF_email_short.html
> :
>
> If the e-mail were reproduced verbatim, or with only trivial changes,
> the sender could also sue the recipient for violation of copyright
> laws. However, if the e-mail was not marked with a copyright notice,
> then the author can only recover the author's actual damages and "any
> profits of the infringer that are attributable to the infringement",
> and the defendants can claim "innocent infringement". 17 U.S.C. §§
> 401(d), 412, 504(b). Since most e-mail is not marked with a copyright
> notice and the expression in most e-mail is not valuable [There is no
> copyright protection for either ideas or information. 17 U.S.C. §
> 102(b)], copyright law gives little protection to typical e-mail.
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> So, unless the forwarding of a private email causes the sender some
> sort of monetary damage, it appears safe to forward it, or at least
> unlikely to result in any damage award if the sender insists on suing.
>
> Art
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
> <dennis-ix at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Apparently the guy from EmbeddedSW found that his corporate email to a list
>> member about EMUFDD had been quoted on the CoCo list back in May 2012. I'm
>> guessing he self-googled and found the message in the archives. He sent a
>> badly spelled email asking the message thread be removed.
>>
>> Just so you know, copyright law DOES protect the content of private email.
>> If you want to pass on information from a private email -- even one from a
>> company -- please paraphrase it but don't quote it without permission. Also
>> remember that copyright covers the expression of an idea, but not the idea
>> itself.
>>
>> Let's not provoke any crazies out there, okay?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dennis
>>
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