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RE: [dvd-discuss] Diebold uses DMCA to suppress embarrassing memos

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Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Diebold uses DMCA to suppress embarrassing memos
From: Jeme A Brelin <jeme(at)brelin.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:14:58 -0800 (PST)
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Ballowe, Charles wrote:
> If an e-mail conversation is legally different than a spoken
> conversation, why?

Copyright protects works in a fixed medium.

Nobody has yet found a way to make vibrating air molecules into a fixed
medium... you gotta go ahead and store the vibration patterns somehow and
revibrate later.

J.
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