Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00021)

Ton,

Yes, it seems the Adyar TS in the USA and John Algeo have a pattern of threatening with lawsuits and in some cases actually starting them. 

Carlos. 


 
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Data:Wed, 1 Nov 2006 14:36:22 +0100

Assunto:Re: Theos-World Betty Bland & BCW Permissions

> I don't think I want to let this go so far as that I end up in court..... Even WITH your money :-) But I DO hope it will trigger a few people who read this group that can trigger other people they know about the RIDICULOUS situation that seems to exist.
> 
> I understand that HPB is cremated but otherwise she would certainly turn in het grave if she heard about this that her (HER !!) can not be published on internet for free 100 years after she died....
> 
> Ton
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: carlosaveline 
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:08 PM
> Subject: Theos-World Betty Bland & BCW Permissions
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> 
> 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
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> 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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