On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:17:49AM +0100, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> > At this time, it appears that hotmail.com aren't claiming any
> > ownership
> > over messages read, so if you're only reading, then there
> > isn't a problem.
>
> If I read a message coming from Hotmail, do you think they
> can conceivably claim ownership of the parts of my brain that
> are going to use that idea, and therefore claim ownership of
> basically all my ideas?
I think they can. If they can claim the ownership of messages, they can
also claim that you read copyrighted MS materials. On the other hand:
if they don't send a disclaimer with every message you can't be held
responsible. But then again, I am not a lawyer (just using my common
sense :).
Erik
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