[Gllug] Copyright on email

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Fri, October 26, 2007 4:09 pm, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 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.


Sorry, I meant to write "But you are probably right, ... given the very
widely drawn terms etc"
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