"Fair use" question: If you know you won't be able to get permission to use somebody's email in something you're writing for publication, can you quote a few selective words from their email like "not our policy"?
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* the purpose and character of your use * the nature of the copyrighted work * the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and * the effect of the use upon the potential market. #1: your purpose is likely journalism / criticism, not a competing product >>>
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#2: the thing you are sampling is not a product itself, so you're not competing with them #3: you're taking just a small bit #4: no impact on market for original product IANAL, but you're going to be on VERY VERY safe ground here.
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Email and letters are, I believe, considered copyrighted with the content owned by the person who wrote them. Not the same as quoting from a passage in a book, etc., that is a publicly published work. I could be wrong. Not a lawyer; just a person who's driven past a law school.
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copyright is orthogonal to fair use fair use allows use of copyrighted things
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Speaking as someone who did actually go to law school, there are additional considerations with email besides copyright, such as privacy and disclosing personal info. There is also a tort called “false light” if they think you misrepresented them to their detriment 1/
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Bottom line - this area is very fact-specific, so I wouldn’t be able to do a proper analysis without much more info - so anyone who gives an answer w/ the bare bones you gave is talking outta their ass (legal term).
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