[Air-l] research and copyright

[Christian Nelson]

Sandra Braman wrote:

> fair use under copyright law would provide ethical justification for
> quoting from texts for research purposes --
> but would not cover using complete messages.

I'm not sure of this. Amount of quotation is but one of the factors that
is used to determine fair use. I'd be surprised if a court decided that
one couldn't quote a full message if it was short and had no market value
as describes most E-mails. But courts are frequently surprising, I
suppose.
--Christian Nelson