Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00014)

Carl,

I think you are right. 

I guess you are referring in your posting to Mrs. Betty Bland, the lady who now presides the Adyar T.S. in the USA.

Regards,  Carlos. 



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Data:Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:15:09 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World Re: BCW Permissions

> Did de Zirkoff give Wheaton/Quest Books/TPH the copyright of BCW, or 
> has anyone at all the copyrights of this material? H.P. Blavatsky's 
> relatives, any T.S., or what or who? If not. This copyright of the 
> BCW only is in the "head" (or what ever now it is, together with a 
> lot of other strange thing) of Quest Books, so what has Ton den 
> Hartog then to be afraid of? Ok, Mr. Bland could take him to court, 
> but then I think we all have to support him (den Hartog), with our 
> pen and our money.
> 
> Carl
> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline" 
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > > 
> > > --------------
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > <7. HPB's Collected Writings Online: UPDATE
> > > Posted by: "danielhcaldwell"
> > > danielhcaldwell@... 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > http://collectedwritings.net
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > http://hpb.cc
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