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

[Charles or Doris Hahn]

Glad we didn't worry about this with our old RS-1 theologian friends.

Doris Hahn




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From: Marge Philbrook <msphilbrook at gmail.com>
To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 5:48:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Re Spong: 12/18/08: it is also a copyright issue

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

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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

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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