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@bradley.edu