I was searching the 'net for collections of watchtower literature and I came across these. Has anyone ever heard of them? are they Legit?
http://i-am-an-apostate.blogspot.com/search/label/old%20publications
are these publications legit?
by emanresu 10 Replies latest watchtower bible
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NeonMadman
Yes, they appear to be genuine. Not everything is actually a WTS publication. I see some early Bible Student materials and a few opposition pamphlets. But mostly, these are actual WT pubs.
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geevee
They look like they could be. Some definitely are.
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Lady Lee
Yup they are legit.
Some are now published by various Bible Students' groups (pre Rutherford era) There are many sites on the internet that still distributes Russell era publications. And they are not edited versions - unlike many publications after Russell's death.
Anything published before 1961 is now out of copyright. The WTS is no longer renewing the copyrights on their old pub so they are up for grabs.
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finally awake
I have a copy of the 1988 copyright Revelation book, and the picture with the creepy hand is from page 52.
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Lady Lee
Just so you know - the lists provided in the links - that's a short list. The stuff they have churned out is far longer than that.
You will also see some titles with different years - yup they edited books and resold it to people This is a old old practice.
And to be fair some of the titles are books and then the same title may also be a booklet or even a hand-out
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emanresu
Thanks all!
I'll know add them to my collection
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St George of England
Minnie Edgar was the sister of John and Morton Edgar who were very much into pyramidology with Russel.
She died in the early 1950's just a few weeks after her brother.
George
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rebel8
In the US it is not necessary to file a copy with the Library of Congress & apply for a copyright in order to have the copyrights. The fact that an author writes it means he owns it until a number of years after his death. Religious works can have a longer expiration date in some cases.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap3.pdf
LL where did you get the 1960s date of expiration? Thank you
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Lady Lee
I thought I had read somewhere that many of the WTS' publications were expiring 50 years after their publication date unless the copyright had not been renewed.
guess I could be wrong on that though