tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692225.post6289374458845556931..comments2023-09-25T09:11:03.315-07:00Comments on Journalism Ethics Class: The University of San Francisco, Fall 2017: ....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692225.post-91139382655282079472011-10-18T14:31:10.359-07:002011-10-18T14:31:10.359-07:00Hi-- I'm the author of this piece for the Hous...Hi-- I'm the author of this piece for the Houston Chronicle. I just wanted to make sure that you recognize that a tweet sent out on Twitter is not a text message. It is publicly accessible on her Twitter feed, as I linked to. You can find it <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/MargieJPhelps/status/121734282292117505" rel="nofollow">here</a> or at <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/MargieJPhelps" rel="nofollow">twitter.com/MargieJPhelps</a>. Tweeting is the same as posting something on a website, just shorter.<br /><br />KateKate Shellnutthttp://blog.chron.com/believeitornotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692225.post-45564685802243811912011-10-06T13:39:03.828-07:002011-10-06T13:39:03.828-07:00On that's a nice one. I recall back in my days...On that's a nice one. I recall back in my days as a grad student at Duke studying the life and times of Mr. James Joyce, and the issue of quoting from some of his letters in a current biography came up. We were told that the text of the letters - the words in Joyce's "creative" arrangement of them - belonged to the Joyce family but that anyone who read the letters could make fair use of them; that is, they could paraphrase them.<br /><br />But what about emails? Same logic, maybe?? Here's something I found online that suggests that's true, that instant copyright is created the moment you write an email.<br /><br />http://itqueries.com/2011/03/10/who-owns-copyright-on-my-emails/<br /><br />Tweets and text messages are just jumped-up emails, I reckon. But I'm also assuming this particular message was widely distributed, and I'd consider that de facto permission to reprint it exactly. And as a newsperson, if I somehow laid hands on this message even if it was intended for a single individual, I'd probably consider it newsworthy enough - and produced by someone who has become a public figure in an important public controversy and thus would sacrifice certain libel rights - to print as written with no ethical hesitation.<br /><br />I think I'll ask lawyer/doctor Ed Lenert about this.....J.Michael Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.com