XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british, uk.legal   
   From: me8@privacy.net   
      
   On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 22:51:38 +0100, banana   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article , Mike_B   
   > writes   
   >>In message , banana   
   >> writes   
   >>   
   >>>So one person who gets a document via a FOIA request is breaching   
   >>>copyright if they send the document to someone else?   
   >>   
   >>I don't think they are suggesting that you breach copyright by sending   
   >>it to someone else.   
   >   
   >But they are -   
      
   No they aren't.   
      
   >assuming you have copied it, or permitted the other   
   >person to copy it, e.g. by putting it on a website.   
      
   Yes, this is breach of copyright.   
      
   But is not an assumption that can be made when you "send it to someone   
   else".   
      
      
   >   
   >>Only that you do so by publishing it, which may well   
   >>be true but it would be interesting to see what damages they would claim   
   >>for the non-commercial publication of documents that are freely   
   >>available to anyone on request.   
   >   
   >Sending a copy to someone else is publication.   
      
   "publication" is irrelevant to copyright law. That is defamation law.   
      
   It is "Copying" that is relevant to copyright law.   
      
   >Maybe they know they   
   >wouldn't get damages, and this is why rather than threatening Craig   
   >Murray with having to pay damages, they chose to threaten him with   
   >having to pay the Foreign Office's legal costs!   
      
   They would get minimal actual damages, but probably would get those   
   costs.   
      
   So yes, that is much more of a threat.   
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