[Gllug] Copyright on email

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Fri, October 26, 2007 1:26 pm, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Fri, October 26, 2007 12:58 pm, Simon Wilcox wrote:
>> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>>> Indeed. And all emails, including this one, are arguably copyrighted in
>>> any case. Though possibly by your employer rather than you.
>>
>> Not arguably. Copyright exists the moment a "work" is brought into
>> being. No special measures need to be taken to protect it and it belongs
>> to the individual creating it.
>>
> No, it is arguably. because you'd have to argue it was one of the classes
> of work protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.


Though of course the term 'work' is very widely drawn in the Act!
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