Re: [Air-l] research and copyright

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