[Gllug] Copyright on email

Adrian McMenamin adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info
Fri Oct 26 12:26:55 UTC 2007


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.
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