[LINK] sharing e-mail banned by law - 5 years jail or $60,000 fines

[Howard Lowndes]

Exactly.  An org I am involved with had a very sensitive email made public
and the person who was most affected by it, but not libelled by it,
started to distribute it to embarrass the org.  I suggested that the org
get their legals into gear on the grounds of breach of copyright, which
they did.  That snapped the chain up very fast.

The email made no mention about explicit copyright, but implicit copyright
was a known fact.

-- 
Howard.
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:

> Also note, Peter Coronius (spelling?) said @ the end of the article he
> doubted whether anything really changes, given that common law copyright
> already existed.