> Title 17 makes it specific, as I recall, that medium is irrelevant -- a > copyright book is no less copyright for being on a diskette than it is as a > printed work. And letters are copyright to the authors thereof, which > makes for quite a potential hassle for biographers. Ergo, I rather suspect > the law would stand behind anyone who claimed that an e-mail message was > copyright to the person who composed / sent it. This is something that has been argued back and forth on the copyright list for a long time. As Pete suggested, best to take it there. [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Douglas