Who owns an email
Seriously, who owns it? I mean, publication rights? Can I publish emails that students send to me here on this blog, because that would be High-larious.
posted by Monstro D. Whale | 11:50 AM
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"Tell them I said something important. You're supposed to say something important when you die." Last Words of Poncho Villa
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"Behind the intials was a metaphor, a delirium tremens, a trembling unfurrowing of the mind's plowshare. The saint whose water can light lamps, the clairovoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from." Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
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3 Comments:
E-mails are legally regarded to be like postcards. This means that anything you write in them is considered public property. Anyone can read it if they can access it.
I would imagine that what is written on a postcard is copyright protected, belonging to the person who wrote it.
One of my students just complained about her C- because it sucks. She wants her grade changed. I don't think the emails great or anything, but what a great reason for wanting a grade change: "it sucks."
Since e-mails are considered public property, you could quote the e-mail and give her credit for writing it. If fact, you could use it as an example for future classes. Unfortunately, I don't believe you could use it anonymously.
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