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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Electronic Mail treated as phone calls?
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Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 21:04:00 EDT
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["Your Popery, this is a simple case of pie rights." --American Pie]

I don't know why, but this discussion reminds me of Alan Herbert's
"Modern Misleading Cases in the Common Law." Especially Chicken v.
Ham, the Gramophone Libel Case. ("Is a phonographic recording a
written message or a spoken message?")

Can we stop trying to find precedents?  New communications media
always overthrow old forms.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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