On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:44:08 PDT, Troy said: > I'm surprised we don't see more disclaimers with a copyright statement in > them. I would think that using copyright law as an argument against > unauthorized distribution of an email would stand a better chance in court > than a non-binding disclaimer at the bottom of the message. The problem is that it's *really* hard to write the disclaimer with a copyright attached to it. The tricky part is to figure out how to make it *legal* to cite the text in a reply - how would you phrase your copyright statement to allow what I'm doing in this message? Also, copyright doesn't cover *ideas* well - so if the leaked e-mail has info about (for instance) a planned hostile corporate takeover, the *information* has escaped, and copyright only prohibits *that expression* from being copied. If I rephrase and restate the info, there's no copyright issue with my then telling all and sundry about the corporation that's about to have a hostile takeover...
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