12 Apr
2005
12 Apr
'05
11:23 p.m.
Ben "tola" Francis wrote:
Hmm. Surely downloading the message from your mail server is technically making a full copy of the author's original work without their express consent, as is reading a web page which gets copied into your cache.
Indeed, it is. It isn't copyright infringment in England because of blanket permissions in the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1990 as amended and I'm pretty sure that none of them permit you to republish a whole work posted to a list. I'd be extremely interested to hear if anyone knows recent case law.
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