Theos-Talk Archives (January 2011 Message tt00084)

Just got to hope, or look, and see if it's cool/new straightup.  Other than that and as a Society, probably, always a good idea to look at/see a few snap shots of your hands and feet.    

Besides, that's a lot of co-ordination, then add one walking to that, and that's always interesting.

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, MKR <mkr777@...> wrote:
>
> SD can be downloaded for free online. Why would anyone pay to get it on
> Kindle, unless you won Amazon Stock or a cat fat with a lot of money and do
> know what to do.
> 
> The old saying that all the good things in life are free, even though in
> Kaliyuga everyone tries to make a buck on everything.
> 
> Theosophists beware!
> 
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:20 PM, thalprin <thalprin@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I get a big kick out of cruising through the books that are publishing,
> > especially in 1990-2000+ and say author: HPB and _____, for example.
> >
> > Man, that's funny.
> >
> > These recent books would all be copywritten (unless author/publisher
> > specifies otherwise) - the Secret Doctrine, her original, that book for
> > example, sh/would be public property but that doesn't necc. mean that its
> > content a/o her work (next edition/new printing/so on and so forth) is, or
> > isn't sharing the same fate as the Happy Birthday song starting back a few
> > years ago.
> >
> > It's a revenue means/stream and has been continually published since its
> > first edition that'd be my guess, and that's how it looks.
> >
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=the+secret+doctrine&tag=mh0b-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=20697143&ref=pd_sl_zu8bt6dnu_e#/ref=sr_pg_1?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Athe+secret+doctrine&keywords=the+secret+doctrine&ie=UTF8&qid=1294357748
> >
> > So, at first blush it looks to me like a lot of early material may be in a
> > grey zone, of two camps; as in public a/b not public at all -
> >
> > Sometimes such happens simply because there's a tending to ride on the
> > backs of great works when/if a steady stream of great new works isn't
> > happening - and, classics are classics and they never/rarely want to let go
> > of those, in that if someone will buy, publishers will want to be selling
> > more copies/versions.
> >
> > Gotta watch over your materials (yer copyrights and intellectual
> > properties, and heh yer/their 'futures') pretty carefully, especially these
> > days, to ensure that however the Society wants/wanted its materials handled
> > is actually what happens or has happened, especially so with its own
> > founders.
> >
> > Only by studying the Society' early print policies will anyone know what
> > policies regarding their written materials the Society and its founders had
> > in mind.
> >
> > Terrie
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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