I learned from the Salinger suit that writers do own their words; recipient owns the letters they got them on. So, VF is in legal trouble.

[Mark Kohut]

That will probably be the argument but it didn’t work for the Salinger
biographer. Theses are personal letters not bits from a book for a review
or teaching.

On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 3:42 PM Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wouldn’t that be considered fair use?
>
> > On Nov 29, 2024, at 10:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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