Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!CSV.RPI.EDU!wrf%juliet From: wrf%juliet@CSV.RPI.EDU Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: re: another privacy issue (forwarding a message) Message-ID: <8804071724.AA05364@juliet.rpi.edu> Date: 7 Apr 88 17:24:44 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: ECSE Dept., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180 Lines: 4 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu With paper letters, I believe that the sender owns the copyright. This has been an issue, I think, when collections of letters to/from some famous person are published. If the writer of a letter to the person refuses consent, then the editor may include only a paraphrase. Presumably the same might hold for email.