Regarding U.S. copyright law, these Russell and Rutherford era books appear to be no longer covered by U.S. copyright law any more. My layman's understanding is that anything pre-1978 is under the old copyright law which protected a work for 28 years, renewable for another 28 years. Anything after 1978 is subject to a significantly longer period of protection (life of the author + 50 or 70 years).
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JWoods
Thanks - I figured that the WTS would be all over this if they had any legal justification.
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garyneal
Marking
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Terry
I sometimes wonder what a tidal wave could be started if each and every one of us on these Discussion boards sent the right materials anonymously to every JW we knew of.
Food for thought....
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BabaYaga
Thanks for letting us know, Terry... and thank you too, Olin Moyles Ghost, I didn't realize some were on Google books now.
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Quentin
dandy idea....reverse witnessood idea too...., g
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Terry
Quentin--nice to see you back from your NEAR DEATH experience!
Did they pull that tube out of your lung yet?
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RR
Yes, Rusell and Rutherford books are now public domain, as if much of the stuff written prior to 1975, unless the Society has renewed the copyrights, but even then there are limits to how long one can continue copyrights. Eventually they run out and can not be renewed. Although I recall the Church of Scientology, gettinmg a dispensation on copyrights, and received UNLIMITED copyrights on the works of L. Ron Hubbard during the Nixon adminstration.
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Terry
Ahhh, pity L.Ron Hubbard and Freddy Franz couldn't have co-authored a sci-fi novel.