[Avodah] Recording people without their knowledge

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:17:08PM -0500, Lisa Liel wrote:
>> I can see arguing that sharing such a recording with others violates the
>> cheirem deRabbeinu Gershom about reading others' mail. In both cases,
>> someone's communication is being brought to more people than he intended
>> and is aware of.

> I'm not convinced.

I'm not convinced either. As I wrote, "I can see arguing..." That's not
quite unequivical endorsement.

>                     Reading someone's mail is, I think, more of an
> infringement on the recipient than it is on the sender.

But it is already taken to include the recipient sharing the mail without
the author's permission, which is more parallel to our case. This comes
up in teshuvos about publishing privately written teshuvos. (Where the
discussion ends up being about whether the tzibbur owns the author's
Torah already.)

Yoma 4b talks about repeating something someone told you. Maybe it's
related, maybe this is a new line of argument.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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