[Vision2020] the blogstalker

Thu May 26 18:23:22 PDT 2005

Julie et. al.

Actually, there are cases where a private e-mail meant to be private and sent to one and only one e-mail address could be a basis for legal action if someone made that e-mail public in a manner that did damage to the author's reputation and/or livelihood and/or if the exploiter of the e-mail was making profit off the "private" communication.

Thus if I wrote my wife (I'm not married, this is just an example) a steamy long e-mail that was only sent to and meant for her, but somehow ended up as dialog in a movie love scene, and there was documentation that dialog was lifted word for word from this private e-mail to my wife (I'm trying to create extreme circumstances that are very actionable), which my boss found out about, thus firing me for writing "pornography," which was not my intention, the courts might consider this an improper use of a private communication, and award damages, both for damage to reputation and livelihood and wrongfully gained profit from someone else's written statements taken without permission or compensation.

As Keely pointed out, the more you are a figure in the public arena the less you are protected from use of your statements by someone else for whatever purpose...

Ted Moffett

-----Original Message-----
From: Julie C <joodge at hotmail.com>
To: kjajmix1 at msn.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Thu, 26 May 2005 17:41:35 -0600
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] the blogstalker

Thank you to all who have helped me figure out what is going on behind this "blogstalking."  As a relatively newcomer to this whole vision2020 system, this was something I wasn't aware of.  But now the light has been shed on the subject, and I appreciate all those who helped to do that.  You will notice that I am now claiming rights on everything that I write. As it is included in my email signature, I'll be protecting myself against my friends, or worse, MY MOTHER, from stealing any of my words either. Oh wait...they are good people.
So my words were cut and pasted into someone else's website. I'm not the only one.  And at least it's not as bad as being emailed by some unemployed ex-senator and told I'm a cruel and whiny b****.  Now that's a real highlight of my day. Since nothing anyone emails is protected, what's stoppin' me from including that?!
JC

*~*The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.*~*

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