Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On 3/2/2011 12:19 AM, Mariusz Kruk wrote: >> On Wednesday 02 of March 2011, Patrick Ben Koetter 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, >>> German law will not work in this case for the same reason it won't >>> for email disclaimers too. The rationale is that "one-sided >>> agreements rescind a contract", which is the case if a sender >>> declares e.g. a copyright on a message or wants "to control >>> expiration of content they create". >> >> Furthermore, let's not forget that while maybe in US every possible >> imaginable thing can be covered by copyright law, in sane countries >> copyright only applies to "works". Work has to be creative. > > That applies in the US also. > >> If I just send you an email >> saying "pay me back my $200 you stupid bastard", it doesn't make it a >> copyrighted work. > > It depends on how you say it. The above statement isn't original > so because of that alone it's not creative.
So how can an email be automatically copyrighted when its originality depends on the contents? /Per Jessen, Zürich
