* Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net>: > On 3/1/2011 11:55 AM, John Levine wrote: > >> From a legal perspective I will point out that any e-mail you > >>receive is (at least in the US, but most other countries too) > >>considered copyrighted by the sender. Under copyright law the > >>sender has the right to control expiration of content they create,
German law will not work in this case for the same reason it won't for email disclaimers too. The rationale is that "one-sided agreements rescind a contract", which is the case if a sender declares e.g. a copyright on a message or wants "to control expiration of content they create". It might have worked back in the days of half-way covenants <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Way_Covenant> ... ;) p@rick > > > >I really think it would be a good idea for people to refrain from > >playing Junior Lawyer here. > > > >I know just enough about copyright law to know that this claim is > >nonsense. > > > > No, it is not nonsense. Copyright law does allow the content creator > to specify duration of use. If you go view a movie in a movie theater > you buy a ticket for a single viewing, you do not automatically get > to view it multiple times just because you bought a ticket. > > Ted > > >R's, > >John > -- state of mind Digitale Kommunikation http://www.state-of-mind.de Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563
