Sorry for top posting, on a bberry. So, you would say someone can send me a letter in the mail with the condition I am only allowed to read it one time? I call BS too. The movie example is completely different. The purchase of a ticket is an agreement to watch the movie one time. No agreement exists for an email. ------Original Message------ From: Ted Mittelstaedt To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date Sent: Mar 1, 2011 10:50 PM
On 3/1/2011 11:55 AM, John Levine wrote: >> From a legal perspective I will point out that any e-mail you >> receive is (at least in the US, but most other countries too) >> considered copyrighted by the sender. Under copyright law the >> sender has the right to control expiration of content they create, > > I really think it would be a good idea for people to refrain from > playing Junior Lawyer here. > > I know just enough about copyright law to know that this claim is > nonsense. > No, it is not nonsense. Copyright law does allow the content creator to specify duration of use. If you go view a movie in a movie theater you buy a ticket for a single viewing, you do not automatically get to view it multiple times just because you bought a ticket. Ted > R's, > John
