[Oe List ...] IP rights to Social Process Triangles
W. J.
synergi at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 24 20:36:45 CST 2010
It was to indicate that we intended the document for internal use only, and/or that it was a "working draft" not suitable for publication. In the case of previously published materials, it was probably an attempt to avoid lawsuits for the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials.
Marshall
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From: David Walters <walters at alaweb.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 2:59:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] IP rights to Social Process Triangles
What was the purpose of the bold faced statement
"Not For Publication Or Distribution" on the front cover of most ducuments thhat
came from your editorial office behind Room A?
David Walters
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>From: W. J.
>To: Order Ecumenical Community
>Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:47
> PM
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] IP rights to
> Social Process Triangles
>
>
>In order to control or authorize use of intellectual property, you have
> first to be able to claim copyright. That's why we printed a (possibly
> defective) copyright notice on the Social Process Triangles in 1971. This
> gives notice of ICA's intent to actually submit copyright documents to the
> Library of Congress (which of course we never did--nor does almost anyone else
> except Hollywood) and to defend against copyright violations, including false
> authorship claims from others and unauthorized changes/usage, by threatening
> or engaging in a civil lawsuit--which we have never needed to do.
>Most copyright violation lawsuits seem to be over 'piracy' or
> unauthorized reproduction of goods worth multimillions of dollars, or the
> creation of a black market which deprives copyright owners of significant
> unrealized income.
>Strangely, the ICA-USA's previous board of directors (before the recent
> 'regime change' or mass departure of the recently dominant faction) seemed to
> be obsessed with defending their imagined 'intellectual property rights' from
> unauthorized use--by us! Smelled to me like a corporatist mindset had taken
> over the board. Thankfully they're gone. Maybe the new board would like to
> clarify their new stance.
>
>
>Marshall
>
>
>Charles, indeed we 'ripped off' a lot of theologians and other authors in
> the old days, but one could make the point that in popularizing their work we
> gave those guys a lot of free publicity and thus increased their book sales.
> Tillich, Boulding, cummings, Hesse et al should be grateful.
>Sometimes we played by the rules. I got a letter signed by Aaron Copeland
> giving us his permission to use 'Fanfare for the Common Man' without paying a
> licensing fee.
>
>
>
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From: R Williams
> <rcwmbw at yahoo.com>
>To: > Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 5:07:54
> AM
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...]
> IP rights to Social Process Triangles
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>
>Charles,
>
>I agree with everything you say. However, it may be that
> the ICA needs to assure that someone other than the
> ICA does not claim proprietary rights to the material and
> then try to restrict the right of all of us to use
> it. ICA's intent then would be to protect if for > our use rather than to prohibit if from being used by
> others.
>
>Randy
>
>--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Charles or Doris Hahn
> <cdhahn at flash.net> wrote:
>
>
>>From:
>> Charles or Doris Hahn <cdhahn at flash.net>
>>Subject: Re: [Oe
>> List ...] IP rights to Social Process Triangles
>>To: "Order
>> Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>>Date: Tuesday,
>> February 23, 2010, 9:08 PM
>>
>>
>> >>
>>I find this chatter really interesting. When we were
>> working on all those projects, we just assumed that the products,
>> i.e. the Social Process Triangles, the New Religious Mode, etc.
>> belonged to the world. How many papers or chapters of books did
>> we use in our courses without secureing permission, and giving only
>> the authors name. It seems to me that we should be generous
>> enough to ask only that the The Institute of Cultural Affairs be
>> mentioned or credited. I cannot believe that we would stick to
>> the letter of the law on getting permission and giving total copyright
>> documentation. The stuff is yours and mine, and it belongs to
>> humankind.
>>Charles Hahn
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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From: Wilson Priscilla
>> <Pris at TeamTechPress.com>
>>To: Order Ecumenical Community
>> <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>>Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010
>> 5:06:26 PM
>>Subject: >> Re: [Oe List ...] IP rights to Social Process
>> Triangles
>>
>>I used the triangles in The Facilitative
>> Way...giving credit to the international research of
>> the Institute of Cultural Affairs. Jenkins have a whole book on the
>> triangles titled The Social Process
>> Triangles. We checked with Lyn Edwards before
>> printing The Facilitative
>> Way and she gave her "permission."
>>
>>So many people worked on creating those...they have to be
>> "corporate" property.
>>
>>
>>When we worked on The Facilitative
>> Way we changed some titles, but kept the dynamics
>> the same. We've been told that our chapter on the triangles is very
>> helpful. We listened to clients when working on titles.
>>Priscilla Wilson
>>
>>
>>On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Herman Greene wrote:
>>
>>Is their any problem in
>>> using the social process triangles? Is anyone claiming a copyright
>>> to the triangles?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Herman
>>>
>>>_____________________________________________
>>>Herman F. Greene,
>>> Esq.
>>>Greene Law,
>>> PLLC
>>>2516 Winningham
>>> Drive
>>>Chapel
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>>>919-942-4358
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>>Priscilla Wilson
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>>Pris at TeamTechPress.com
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