Re: LAW: Privacy in Electronic Recordkeeping

From: my inner geek (geek@ifeden.com)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 16:25:53 MST


How can I make it so nobody communicates with me without agreeing in advance
that I can share that communication in its entirety with my community of
peers.

----- Original Message -----
From: <T0Morrow@aol.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: LAW: Privacy in Electronic Recordkeeping

> To make available to the public the entirety of someone's private
> correspondence to
> you would almost certainly violate their copyrights (absent their having
> consented
> to such reproduction and distribution of their works) and might violate
their
> privacy
> rights (if they wrote to you in the context of a confidential
relationship).
>
> In a message dated 1/20/01 10:33:40 PM, myinnergeek@yahoo.com writes:
>
> . . .
> >I'm interested in digitizing all of written correspondence I receive, and
> >placing those files on my home computer (which is internet connected and
> >accessible with password).
> >
> >When someone sends me a letter and I digitize it and put it on my
computer,
> >is this legal (by current law)?
>
> T.0. Morrow
> http://members.aol.com/t0morrow/T0Mpage.html



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