tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post112363782905430742..comments2024-03-15T11:42:21.265-04:00Comments on The Patry Copyright Blog: Authorship and ReligionWilliam Patryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12987498082479617363noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1124720705866713402005-08-22T10:25:00.000-04:002005-08-22T10:25:00.000-04:00Copyright registration problems are the least of s...Copyright registration problems are the least of some publisher's worries. I wonder if anyone with a bad temper has noticed this Project Gutenberg header:<BR/><BR/>The Project Gutenberg EBook of <A HREF="http://gutenberg.teleglobe.net/etext02/koran12a.txt" REL="nofollow">The Koran</A>, by Mohammed<BR/><BR/>Title: The Koran<BR/><BR/>Author: Mohammed<BR/><BR/>Release Date: September, 2002 [EBook #3434]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1123805962498195382005-08-11T20:19:00.000-04:002005-08-11T20:19:00.000-04:00Revision to above comment: Oops, wrong of me. Tota...Revision to above comment: Oops, wrong of me. Totally not a scholar of Judaism. One just sees "Chumash" much more frequently in the other context.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1123805716804665322005-08-11T20:15:00.000-04:002005-08-11T20:15:00.000-04:00You've got a terminology problem in the next to la...You've got a terminology problem in the next to last paragraph. The first five books of the Bible are known collectively as the Torah. Chumash, as a quick Google search shows, is <A HREF="http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/" REL="nofollow">the name of a group of Native Americans.</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1123712208088632962005-08-10T18:16:00.000-04:002005-08-10T18:16:00.000-04:00Heh. I'm trying to imagine even more Fun With Jes...Heh. I'm trying to imagine even more Fun With Jesus (tm).<BR/><BR/>What if Jesus...um... who is the author of the Bible, we know, because he's both the original (non-deceased) author AND his son... although not the author of the gospels, one would think, since they have human authors... and yet... <BR/><BR/>...decided to transfer his copyright in the Bible to the Pope...<BR/><BR/>... I'm running out of hypothetical. This is harder than it looks.<BR/><BR/>... and the Pope encrypts it and uploads it to a webpage that's password protected, and then Shawn Fanning breaks into the webpage by entering "anonymous" and "anonymous" as login name and password (clearly not an effective means of DMCA protection), and uploads the (encrypted) file to a public FTP site, where ...<BR/><BR/>...um...<BR/><BR/>...a foreign national reads it, and mistakenly believes it is defaming him...<BR/><BR/>... got nothin'.Joe Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09153513143712997156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1123704029808954652005-08-10T16:00:00.000-04:002005-08-10T16:00:00.000-04:00Dear Anonymous:I have paid only a little attention...Dear Anonymous:<BR/><BR/>I have paid only a little attention to the indigneous cultural property movement, but I don't think that is a religious issue, rather one dealing with collective ownership. And there I do think there are serious, perhaps impossible conflcits with general copyright principles. As for a transfer from Jesus, sure, if Jesus complied with Section 204.William Patryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12987498082479617363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1123703031536953082005-08-10T15:43:00.000-04:002005-08-10T15:43:00.000-04:00What if Schucman had claimed that Jesus transferre...What if Schucman had claimed that Jesus transferred rights in the work to her?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12505562.post-1123701055081094182005-08-10T15:10:00.000-04:002005-08-10T15:10:00.000-04:00"There appears to be no area where general copyrig..."There appears to be no area where general copyright principles can't handle claims involving copyright in religious works."<BR/><BR/>I don't know about that--what about the indigenous "cultural property" movement, which argues that general copyright principles are inadequate to protect their traditional (including religious) patrimony?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com