I may have misunderstood, but wouldn't publishing his letters in a book violate the trust of the people who "wrote" them. It seems like a pretty crappy way for that 18-year-old kid to find out his parents didn't really write those letters.
shareYes! I couldn't quite grasp the logic behind that either. Perhaps people are so used to technological intervention that the intention of the sender is equal in emotional value to the content of the letter?
shareWouldn't BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.com own the copyright?
shareI think you guys misunderstood this plot point. Those weren't the letters he was writing for other people, they were his personal letters.
shareThat's exactly what I thought too. If people have paid Theo to write those letters then surely they own the copyright, so how can he put them in a book? Especially since they may not want others to read those letters.
shareThose are his own letters, not the letters of other people.
shareThey're the letters he wrote while working, and therefore were the letters he wrote on behalf of his company's customers. In the scene where he receives the book in the mail he opens the book and flips through the pages and you can clearly see that they're the same letters that he had been writing while at work. You can even see the names at the bottom of the letters and they're not Theo's name. I watched the movie only last night and I paid special attention to that scene because I knew there was some debate on IMDB about the letters.
Besides, what other letters did he write? I don't remember him writing any personal letters for himself.