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

[Marge Philbrook]

I don't understand the issue.  I have most of Spong's books and I share them
with people all the time.  When I heard him speak 3 weeks ago, I didn't get
the idea that he didn't want his wisdom shared with anyone else.  I felt
that his lectures where the same as books already written.  He mentioned his
newest book on life after death that will come out this summer.  I put my
name on a list for receiving emails from him but none have come.  There was
no request for money on that piece of paper I wrote my name on.  So what is
the ethical issue with sharing an email?  Marge Philbrook

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Adam Thomson <
dmtmsn at language.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

>  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
>
> END OF MESSAGE
>
> 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
>
> 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
> inmusunka at sbcglobal.net
>
>
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