>>Bringing an email I sent to a friend to the public will indeed be quite an offensive act towards me. I'm not sure about an email I sent to someone who applied for a job in my shop. It's my feeling that it's not really in the private domain. Professional companies know this mechanism and it forces them to reply 'correctly' to applicants.
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>I have no idea whether the same rules apply to emails, but in the US, a letter belongs to the person who wrote it, not to the recipient. So, to publish the letter, the recipient must get the permission of the sender.
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>Tamar
Tamar,
I think you're refering to 'copyright for authors'. But as you know this right has some counterparts, like 'freedom of speech' and 'freedom of the press'. Those rights enable us to publish (parts of) texts. Of course, if the author goes to court, then the 'publisher' must come with a plausible justification for the act of publishing.
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