Who Owns Your Email Address?
from the such-legal-issues dept
While everyone is trying to figure out how to stop spam, a very interesting legal question is being raised: who actually owns your email address? Is it you? Is it whoever owns the domain name (assuming you don't own your own domain name)? Is it the internet as a whole? Since many lawsuits involving email seem to rely on property rights issues, this question may become more important over time - and it's unclear if there's a really good answer.
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If you *owned* it and cancelled your service, then noone would ever be able to use that number again because it's your's.
Just ask the guy who had 867-5309 and tried to sell it on ebay.
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So in effect, you, I and countless other millions have paid billions of dollars for the privilege of transporting a leased phone number.
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