On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 June 2010 13:55, Dennis During <dcdur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Are you saying that one can't disclose correspondence to any third-party >> without consent of both parties? In what jurisdictions? > > The law is a little out-of-date. When someone sends you a physical > letter you can give that letter to anyone you like, since it is a > piece of tangible property that you own (unless you've signed a > non-disclosure agreement, or something). However, giving someone an > email involves copying it, so copyright becomes a factor. I think > forwarding an email without permission is, technically, a copyright > violation in any jurisdiction that hasn't created an exception to the > usual law for it (I suppose some jurisdictions might interpret sending > an email as including an implied license to copy it, so don't require > a statutory exception, but I don't know of any such interpretations).
In a certain jurisdiction, only creative expression can be under protection of laws. I have no comment, since I don't follow the whole discussion, if it is related to the mail in question. > What jurisdictions have such exceptions, I don't know. Google will > find you plenty of discussions (some reasonably well-informed) about > this issue. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- KIZU Naoko http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
