Re: Letter to the Editor Boston Globe, Jan 19th

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 19 Jan 2003 at 13:59, Laurence Glavin wrote:

> I assume it's ok to quote letters to the editor of a newspaper because
> they are not proprietary to the publication, and the author's intent was
> as widespread a circulation as possible. Today's (01/19) Boston Sunday
> Globe printed a letter by Jeff Stone of Milton, Mass. The Globe's headline
> was "The rise of smarmy ads for snake oil":

Coppyright in letters to the editor belongs to the letter-writer, absent a contract to the 
contrary.

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