[Air-l] RE: Copyright issues on material transmitted to AIR-L

[Ed Lamoureux]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Dean Rehberger wrote:

 some in private see it as a good thing and make it easy to do so
> through offering text versions and email versions ("if you like this, email
> it to a friend").
> 
ed:

this is an entirely different case. when one uses this modality, the email
is delivered by the producer/copyright holder. The 2nd party (YOU) doesn't
edit the material (no copy and paste) . . . and the rights holder delivers
the material  (the mail doesn't go back through your account as a copy)
AND they deliver it in the mode they want (either directly, or though a
link). This modality gives the producer/rights holder the technical
capacity to present the material in the performative context of THEIR
choice, not yours.

It is, then, an instance of the right holder distributing their own
content, protected by copyright law.


ed lamoureux
ell at bradley.edu