[Gllug] Copyright on email

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Fri, October 26, 2007 3:39 pm, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 13:26 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Wrong.
>
> Copyright would subsist in it as it is clearly a recorded form of
> expression no less than a hand written letter (or music score).
>

Errr... IANAL and all that, but it is only "wrong" in a common law
jurisdiction once the courts have ruled it so. I am not aware of any such
case law about emails (though it may exist), so therefore it is arguable,
given the obviously very widely drawn terms of Sections 1 and 3 of the
1988 Act.
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