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A comment on Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme Court case on speech. Parent comment

Re:Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme ... by lostlogin on Monday April 26, 2021 @03:39PM (#26947026)
> How’s a private snap any different than a private letter?

I thought that letters had a copyright? The recipient has ownership but cannot publish. If they do copy and distribute (as a screenshot of a Snapchat message) does this not break copyright?

Edit: In New Zealand (where I am), an employer screenshooting and distributed an employee’s Facebook messages breached privacy laws. https://privacy.org.nz/tools/knowledge-base/view/366

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Re:Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme ... by mannerheim on Monday April 26, 2021 @03:54PM (#26947212)
Copyright generally doesn't protect usage of a work in criticism of it, even if it is basically verbatim usage without added commentary. I think Hughes v. Benjamin is salient here.
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