full-disclosure - Re: Email Disclaimers...Legally Liable if breached?

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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:59:57 -0400
From: <full-disclosure@...hmail.com>
To: <gimmespam@...il.com>,<valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: 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@...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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