That's a tricky situation. It's certainly unethical of them to publish your e-mail in their newsletter, but I don't know that it's necessarily illegal or breach of copyright.
One thing that did happen to me was finding a photograph I took twenty years ago sitting on popmatters.com. It was of my buddy Sal at Rosario's Pizzeria, formerly on Houston, now on Orchard. And it even had someone else's name on it! I complained, they changed the name to mine, and it was over.
I think you should complain to the school principal, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were the one making the decision to use it. It was your correspondent there who shouldn't have forwarded it, though.
As we're studying copyright law and intellectual property right now, I'm pretty sure an argument could be made for it's illegality. Really, it doesn't matter, though, because I'd never press the issue.
I think I'm going to wait to see it for myself and then call the principle to ask her what the deal is. There's a chance that the paragraph I submitted for the "class notes" section was instead published as an article, which wouldn't be so horrible, but it would have been nice to have some notice. Right now, I'm hoping that's what happened, although I don't think it's that likely...
I feel weird when people on LJ sometimes post e-mails, especially recent ones, from various people, particularly if they're on really sensitive topics, as they usually are. I feel like they're betraying a confidence, which is what the people at your school did in this case with your e-mail.
I feel the same way about posting e-mails, unless permission is granted. I feel even more strongly when it appears in a physical form--I wonder if that perception will change, or even reverse in the years to come? Interesting.
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One thing that did happen to me was finding a photograph I took twenty years ago sitting on popmatters.com. It was of my buddy Sal at Rosario's Pizzeria, formerly on Houston, now on Orchard. And it even had someone else's name on it! I complained, they changed the name to mine, and it was over.
I think you should complain to the school principal, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were the one making the decision to use it. It was your correspondent there who shouldn't have forwarded it, though.
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I think I'm going to wait to see it for myself and then call the principle to ask her what the deal is. There's a chance that the paragraph I submitted for the "class notes" section was instead published as an article, which wouldn't be so horrible, but it would have been nice to have some notice. Right now, I'm hoping that's what happened, although I don't think it's that likely...
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I feel the same way about posting e-mails, unless permission is granted. I feel even more strongly when it appears in a physical form--I wonder if that perception will change, or even reverse in the years to come? Interesting.
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PPS. wtf
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I WANT ONE!!!
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