A Blogger posted a partial reprint of an email conversation without permission....?

Can they do this without repercussions? They took bits and pieces of my email conversation with them and posted it on their blog, mentioning my full name several times in a bad light, what should I do? They did this without my permission.
A Blogger posted a partial reprint of an email conversation without permission....?
Send them and their ISP a DMCA violation notice. The sender of an e-mail automatically owns a copyright on the e-mail and thus the e-mail cannot be redistributed without permission from the author.
Reply:Who cares. Time to grow up. Remember words cant hurt you.
Reply:Maybe you could report them!
Reply:the e-mail you sent to them is now THEIR property to do with as they please....they may say that it was you and use only the parts they want...you can try and refute it BUT this is why they say the pen is mightier than the sword...when ever you write something it can get passed around...as long as they stick to the letter and the truth...you havent a case.....








They do not have a copyright as it is a correspondance directed and given to another person not a story or an article...
Reply:Since they where a party to the conversation they have every legal right to post it online. You can't sue for slander/libel since the information came directly from a conversation with you.





They could only get in trouble if they had secured the email without the consent of the parties involved. Since they're one of the parties they basicly gave themselves permission.





Also you don't have a copyright on the material. Copyright would only come in if they where copying a portion of a book/article/etc that you had published
Reply:If they slandered you(lied about what you said) then you have a cause of action...if they just reprinted what you said..there is no real claim.