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jonathan dough
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a thought about copyrighted materials
by actage ini am very new to this board and have already have ready a post mentioning copyright laws in japan.
and have seen the full text of a non-watchtower book be made free to users here.. now i don't mind watchtower magazines being made free here because jws give away their literature all the time anyways.
but when i see a book being offered that must be purchased normally on amazon or waldenbooks i get a little mad.. say someone who visits this board works at a book seller or printer/publisher.
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Hi, Im newly out
by carpediem innice to be here and look forward to meeting you all.
i made a very sudden exit from 'the lie' approx 5 months ago.
was going to try and slowly fade but couldnt do it.
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jonathan dough
Good job. You were honest in pulling off the band-aid quickly. More people should follow your example. But whatever you do, do not turn your back on the Bible like many of these Ex-Jws. If you deny God you're better off staying in there.
Use some of this against the ones you left behind and the stalkers:
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How much was Christ's ransom sacrifice? Equal to Adam?
by jonathan dough inhow much was the ransom?
gods justice did not require an exact equivalent man-for-man sacrifice between the first adam and jesus, the second adam.
gods gift required more.
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jonathan dough
My point was more that the JWs rationalize that Jesus could be nothing more than a man because that was all that was required and God's law requires an eye-for-eye justice. Which is utter and complete nonsense.
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Need good exit story for African/American L.A. newspaper - yours?
by Dogpatch inanyone (particularly african/americans) have a good exit story to tell the the people of los angeles?
we need someone pronto.
email me back at [email protected].
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jonathan dough
This is important. Not too often the press wants to go there, the cult factor.
Can anyone help this guy out? You could be saving lives. Step up to the plate!
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How much was Christ's ransom sacrifice? Equal to Adam?
by jonathan dough inhow much was the ransom?
gods justice did not require an exact equivalent man-for-man sacrifice between the first adam and jesus, the second adam.
gods gift required more.
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jonathan dough
There was no original sin and there was no need for a sacrifice. Therefore, there is no equality and Christ's life was wasted.
Another Satanist named Robdar?
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a thought about copyrighted materials
by actage ini am very new to this board and have already have ready a post mentioning copyright laws in japan.
and have seen the full text of a non-watchtower book be made free to users here.. now i don't mind watchtower magazines being made free here because jws give away their literature all the time anyways.
but when i see a book being offered that must be purchased normally on amazon or waldenbooks i get a little mad.. say someone who visits this board works at a book seller or printer/publisher.
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jonathan dough
"A 1961 Copyright Office study found that fewer than 15% of all registered copyrights were renewed. For books, the figure was even lower: 7%."
Wow, but what time frame are we talking about? 300 years?
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a thought about copyrighted materials
by actage ini am very new to this board and have already have ready a post mentioning copyright laws in japan.
and have seen the full text of a non-watchtower book be made free to users here.. now i don't mind watchtower magazines being made free here because jws give away their literature all the time anyways.
but when i see a book being offered that must be purchased normally on amazon or waldenbooks i get a little mad.. say someone who visits this board works at a book seller or printer/publisher.
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jonathan dough
Only one word? Really? Are you positive?
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a thought about copyrighted materials
by actage ini am very new to this board and have already have ready a post mentioning copyright laws in japan.
and have seen the full text of a non-watchtower book be made free to users here.. now i don't mind watchtower magazines being made free here because jws give away their literature all the time anyways.
but when i see a book being offered that must be purchased normally on amazon or waldenbooks i get a little mad.. say someone who visits this board works at a book seller or printer/publisher.
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jonathan dough
How about the fairly common practice I've seen on this site of posting entire articles from a WT, Awake! or KM?
Does this constitute "fair use"?
Not without some kind of comment or analysis or discussion. Just posting would be a violation. One of the "fair-use" factors the courts take under consideration is "purpose." And favored purposes are comment and criticism. Other factors are balanced. Of course if the WTS knows about it and allows it to continue they might at some point waive their right to complain, a type of implied consent, MAYBE.
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a thought about copyrighted materials
by actage ini am very new to this board and have already have ready a post mentioning copyright laws in japan.
and have seen the full text of a non-watchtower book be made free to users here.. now i don't mind watchtower magazines being made free here because jws give away their literature all the time anyways.
but when i see a book being offered that must be purchased normally on amazon or waldenbooks i get a little mad.. say someone who visits this board works at a book seller or printer/publisher.
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jonathan dough
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/182812/1/Dictionary-Of-Biblical-Imagery-PDF
the entire book is available on a link with that post and the book is copyright 1998 from Intervarsity Press
Hmmm ... well, at first glance it seems doubtful that the poster of this link violated anyone's copyright. But it is an area of law that is still a bit vague. I read recently that Murdoch is threatening to sue Google to try and remove links to Murdoch's site, or something to that effect. But for the most part it is nonactionable that I can tell .....
On the other hand I just don't know because the site that hosts the files seems to be impinging on those rights. After all, why would the authors offer it as a free download there if they are selling it on Amazon.com? So it would be analogous to illegal file sharing of music. Maybe it is illegal if those files shouldn't be up there in the first place. How is that for a non-answer?
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a thought about copyrighted materials
by actage ini am very new to this board and have already have ready a post mentioning copyright laws in japan.
and have seen the full text of a non-watchtower book be made free to users here.. now i don't mind watchtower magazines being made free here because jws give away their literature all the time anyways.
but when i see a book being offered that must be purchased normally on amazon or waldenbooks i get a little mad.. say someone who visits this board works at a book seller or printer/publisher.
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jonathan dough
At least you know how to find wikipedia. That's a plus.
Well, I suppose if you go back far enough in time you would be correct if you look at all books published but your statement seemed a bit vague and misleading; a bit sweeping. Identifying the window would have clarified things. Someone could unwittingly think that, say, most books published during the 20 years prior to 1964 are in the public domain which probably is not correct. And with respect to what "most" means, are we dealing with sheer numbers? Does anyone know how many books were published before 1964? That fall within the applicable copyright laws?