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Subject:Re[2]: Royalties from TECHWR-L ??? From:Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM Date:Mon, 11 Mar 1996 06:48:00 -0600
However, it has occurred to me that the type of communication that
e-mail and list traffic most resembles is personal letters, and
personal letters are treated as chattel property -of the recipient-
not the author.
Yes, but I believe that while private letters are owned by the recipient, the
publication rights to those letters are still owned by the sender; that is,
while I own the physical item itself I cannot publish its content without the
permission of the writer.
Have fun,
Arlen
arlen -dot- p -dot- walker -at- jci -dot- com
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