Re: Email Disclaimers...Legally Liable if breached?

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VLADIS YOU ARE NOT LAWYER!  YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO USE
COMPUTER!

SHUT UP VLADIS!

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:56:36 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> 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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