Monday, October 27, 2008

There is some suggestion that Living Waters is trying to spur a lawsuit to generate sales.

     I thnk that would be a very unwise course of action. While it might increase sales, it would probably also attract the attention of the Eternal Revenue Service (wait, that's Internal Revenue Service.) If it takes a look at the copyright policy of Living Waters, it is very likely to decide that the registration as a non-profit is fraudulent. The people at Living Waters may find that the entity gets dissolved, they get to sit in jail for tax evasion (and other frauds) and that they are not allowed to sell anything, anywhere, ever. Since the main characters do not strike me as sincere, they should probably reconsider.

Oh, this is rich.

     Now the claim is that any comment on that blog may be used in a Living Waters publication under Fair Use. Given the "copyright policy" at Living Waters, they might find that the judge in any case would be unreceptive. They may be registered as a non-profit, but they are acting as a commercial enterprise.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Copyright law

     Ray Comfort, of Living Waters, snuck a disclaimer onto to his blog claiming that all comments to his blog became the property of Living Waters "Ministries." That is, of course, not how copyright works. If Living Waters later tries to use a Fair Use defense, that disclaimer will actually work against them.

This blog will speak about Living Waters "Ministries."

     Note the quotation marks. I consider them highly dishonest.