Timeline for Can I send someone an email that they are not licensed to download or copy?
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| Mar 14 at 15:10 | comment | added | bdb484 | @interfect I think that's undisputed. I'm not sure what that fact adds, though. | |
| Mar 14 at 13:48 | comment | added | interfect | @bdb484 There are a variety of free mail server and email client implementations available, such as sendmail, Squirrelmail, and even pine. These are under open source licenses that definitely don't impose any restrictions on how you license the content you send through them when you use them. | |
| Mar 14 at 13:32 | comment | added | bdb484 | @User65535 I don't think that's certain at all. Lots of companies have their own domains, but they still use Gmail, Outlook, etc. I don't think I've ever heard of a company (besides Google, Microsoft, etc.) that has its own email client. That's where I'm imagining these terms being imposed. | |
| Mar 14 at 12:43 | vote | accept | interfect | ||
| Mar 14 at 7:49 | comment | added | User65535 | @bdb484 Surely a company doing this is very likely to have their own domain and handle their own email rather than using gmail or something. | |
| Mar 12 at 20:34 | answer | added | Dale M♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 12 at 16:27 | comment | added | bdb484 | No, certainly not. But if your e-mail provider bakes that into the TOS you've agreed to, that would be sufficient. And if Google/Microsoft/Apple/Yahoo all imposed those terms on their users -- perhaps to avoid being dragged into copyright fights as a third party -- that would probably wipe out 99 percent of the potential claims. | |
| Mar 12 at 13:37 | comment | added | interfect | @bdb484 Do I agree to the destination email provider's TOS when sending mail to their domain? I wouldn't necessarily have notice of it. | |
| Mar 12 at 13:33 | comment | added | bdb484 | I wonder also whether the major email providers' TOS include any language meant to protect users from this sort of thing, the way Facebook and X do. | |
| Mar 12 at 13:32 | comment | added | bdb484 | This is a good example, I think, of why all the fuss about copyright protection for emails is largely overblown. As soon as courts are forced to confront these types of scenarios, I suspect they're going to quickly find ways to slam the courthouse doors on anyone trying to control email this way. | |
| Mar 12 at 13:12 | history | asked | interfect | CC BY-SA 4.0 |