Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00506)

Jake,

You strike a central issue here. 


Carlos. 


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Data:Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:47:43 -0800 (PST)

Assunto:Theos-World BCW Permissions

> BCW online and "Permissions"
> 
> 
> Dan says that the Blavatsky Collected 
> Writings online, were put there without 
> permission of Quest & Theosophical Publishing 
> House. I say skrew 'em. They've had them 
> for up to 40 yrs (the original vols. were 
> published independently by Zirkoff) and 
> that's long enough. They certainly don't 
> care much about publishing rights - unless 
> its their own - as can be seen by Algeo 
> stealing and plagiarizing perhaps the whole 
> of John Cooper's editorial work on Vol. I 
> of "HPB Letters." The work is de Zirkoff's 
> - not Quest's. One wonders why the largest 
> TS - Wheaton/Adyar - has to go Outside 
> their own largest organization to get any 
> quality scholars - de Zirkoff and Barborka, 
> for instance, were both Point Loma people. 
> A good question is - since groups like 
> ULT and Pasadena have put all their 
> literature online - why hasn't Quest/Wheaton 
> done the same thing? The work on the 
> BCW CD (a good thing!) is the work of 
> another nearly Independent in the Phillipines 
> - Vincent Hao Chin (?). Always work by 
> independents - which Wheaton scarfs up!
> 
> 
> Plain txt BCW on line at:
> 
> 
> http://tonh.net/theosofie/hpb_cw_online/
> 
> 
> Three cheers for Hartog!
> 
> 
> - jaqua
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> <7. HPB's Collected Writings Online: UPDATE
> Posted by: "danielhcaldwell"
> danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com 
> danielhcaldwell
> Date: Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:33 pm (PST)
> 
> 
> out that the 15 volumes of HPBs Collected Writings
> were
> now online on the following site in the Netherlands.
> 
> http://tonh.net/theosofie/hpb_cw_online/
> 
> 
> the
> permission of Quest Books/Theosophical Publishing
> House (Wheaton, Illinois) to put all of this material
> online!
> 
> 
> about this from the website's owner.
> 
> 
> surprised that this project was undertaken without
> prior consultation and obtaining approval from Quest
> Books.
> 
> 
> COLLECTED WRITINGS on an inexpensive CD-ROM.
> 
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> 
> http://collectedwritings.net
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> http://hpb.cc
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