[Dialogue] Re Spong: 12/18/08: it is also a copyright issue

[Adam Thomson]

Yes there is an ethical issue, but this is surely reinforced by 
conventional copyright law.

Spong's site is not a website requesting financial support. It is 
providing a service that rightly - ethically - expects subscriptions 
for a service provided.

If someone wants to share Spong's site on this and other forums, then 
the least they can do is to ask Spong for permission. Maybe he would 
be willing to give it.

Adam Thomson

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At 21:44 21/12/2008, you wrote:
>There are a multitude of websites requesting financial support.  And 
>many that I do support which do not require subscriptions but rely 
>on the generosity of their readers, unfortunately I can not support 
>them all.  I am grateful that I can share Bishop Spong's essays and 
>that colleagues who do subscribe to them are willing and able to 
>post them to us.  Although I agree we should not take advantage of 
>such good sites, I also feel overwhelmed in how many I can help 
>out.  However if you and Adam feel so inclined to shame your 
>colleagues into refraining from taking advantage of the help we 
>receive from them as they subscribe and share his essays with us, 
>then I will miss the absent postings very much and hope that some 
>time in the future they will return to the Dialogue.
>
>Thank you Ellie and Dick (posthumously) for continuing the tradition 
>of posting Bishop Spong's essays.  I look forward to receiving more 
>but fully understand that you maybe ethically inhibited from posting 
>them.  I believe we all contribute to the needs of the Internet in 
>our own ways and you have certainly given us access to a very 
>worthwhile website.  Please keep it up.
>
>Jim Baumbach
>
><mailto:inmusunka at sbcglobal.net>inmusunka at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>>Thank you Adam Thomson!  Impecunious though I be, I just took the 
>>leap and signed up, feeling now chagrined that I have been reading 
>>free while others supported this great thinker's endeavor provide 
>>us all with the fruits of his labors.  A truly progressive thought, 
>>you had, in this new era.
>>
>>Rev. Bob Ford
>>Preston Bradley Center, NFP
>>312-735-2123 cell
>><mailto:inmusunka at sbcglobal.net>inmusunka at sbcglobal.net

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