[Oe List ...] IP rights to Social Process Triangles

Evelyn Philbrook joyful at icatw.com
Wed Feb 24 23:51:28 CST 2010


Dear Marilyn,

Thank you for stating what many of us have assumed is true.

Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook


marilyncrocker wrote:
> Hi Marshall, Charles, Randy, Terry, et al,
>  
> I just wanted to weigh in on this provocative discussion.  Yes, the 
> /academic, publishing, intellectual properties/ contexts have indeed 
> shifted in the 20 plus years since the 1988 "Diaspora."
>  
> I was always of the understanding of Charles and Jeanette, that all 
> our constructs were created and offered to all.
>  
> However, when I began to work with folks in academe, specifically the 
> National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDE), 
> and suggested the "triangles" as the conceptual framework for 
> Education Accountability -- and then we did the work of thinking 
> through the dynamics of "creates, limits, sustains" for each 
> relationship -- my clients wanted to publish their version of the 
> triangles, and requested the origin of the conceptual model, which I 
> offered as the Ecumenical Institute. 
>  
> This original work led to three Wingspread Conferences, all based on 
> the "triangle" as our conceptual framework, but taken down to lower 
> levels re: implementation  of free and appropriate education for all 
> students with disabilities and their families.  Again, reference was 
> given in published documents to the EI for the conceptual framework.
>  
> As a consultant who brought with me, like skin, "all our screens" in 
> doing my work, I would have been less concerned about documenting 
> references, but the rest of the world works differently.  I needed to 
> learn that it was important to document "what I said worked, and how, 
> and why. and according to whom!"  Our OE mode of research was 
> different, more organic, deeply experiential, less dependent upon 
> measurable data, more informed by rich, qualitative input, 
> triangulated multiple times, across a myriad of cultures.
>  
> I am comfortable walking the razor's edge -- if there is actually 
> one:  bowing to those who require footnotes and bibliographical 
> entries re: all our vast corporate OE/ICA/EI wisdom ; or,  just 
> sharing wisdom, life experience, lessons learned, shaped around 
> concepts like the Bug, the Pentagon, the 144s, the SP triangles, etc.
>  
> I'm guessing, that if someone decided to claim _our_ work as their 
> own,  and prevent _any of us or others_ from ever using it again, we 
> might rise up as a mighty force and do as the common folks of 36 
> counties in Massachusetts did in pre-revolutionary times when they 
> stood over against the "Intolerable Acts" and say absolutely "NO!"
>  
> And with good reason.
>  
> Peace and love to you, my dear colleagues,
>  
> Marilyn
>  
>  
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:47:43 -0800 (PST) "W. J." <synergi at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:synergi at yahoo.com>> writes:
>
>     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
>
>     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
>
>          
>
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         *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
>>          
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