Sparrowdown: Yes it was announced it is in the letter that was read to all congregations in the US Branch territory. It is just remembering what is said.
John Davis
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2018 Annual Meeting
by EyesOpenHeartBroken indoes anybody have any word on the 2018 annual meeting?
i assume something new will be rolled out, since they are having all the congregations do special weekend streaming.. my guess is that there will be some major "new light" concerning the memorial, partaking, anointed, etc.
i would guess that they will say all baptized believers should partake.
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Malloy v Watchtower
by John Davis ina woman asked the federal court in michigan for a restraining order as well as she has sued watchtower.
the restraining order was denied.
the following is from the court's decision not to grant the restraining order.
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John Davis
I only put up that section because I don't have access to the original complaint and the Judge used that as a breakdown of what the complaint is about. The complaint according to the court is several hundred pages.
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2018 Annual Meeting
by EyesOpenHeartBroken indoes anybody have any word on the 2018 annual meeting?
i assume something new will be rolled out, since they are having all the congregations do special weekend streaming.. my guess is that there will be some major "new light" concerning the memorial, partaking, anointed, etc.
i would guess that they will say all baptized believers should partake.
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John Davis
They are tying everyone in because it is a combination of the annual meeting and the dedication of Warwick and the expansion and Wallkill.
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Malloy v Watchtower
by John Davis ina woman asked the federal court in michigan for a restraining order as well as she has sued watchtower.
the restraining order was denied.
the following is from the court's decision not to grant the restraining order.
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John Davis
A woman asked the Federal Court in Michigan for a restraining order as well as she has sued Watchtower. The restraining order was denied. The following is from the court's decision not to grant the restraining order.
Plaintiff appears to assert that she is entitled to a total of several billion dollars (“$4,000,000,000” and “2.4000,000”) for “kidnapping in infancy and as a young adult, separated from parent, family and country for 53 yrs.[,] unlawfully took my children and had adopted, arranged (5) sexual aggravated offenses including statutory, mutilated and dismembered, denied education for self and children, denied legitimate employment for 38 yrs, orchestrated (5) car accidents to injure-causing multiple injuries, defamation of character, physical and mental torture for 16 yrs, physical abuse for 49 yrs, monopolized and defrauded of revenue, secretively implanted the Nkultra Military Device, forged identity, inundated compulsive conceptions, attempts of murder, inventions of criminal and[d] psychological incidents, 30 yrs. of destruction of property, innumerable irreversible damages and 53 yrs in a conspiracy that denies liberty and justice and coerces slavery.” [Dkt. No. 11] Prior to the Motion, Plaintiff did not seem to seek injunctive relief for the alleged conduct of Defendant.
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Canada: class action lawsuit filed against the Watchtower about the pedophilia issue
by yalbmert99 incanada, province of quebec : class action lawsuit filed against the watchtower about the pedophilia issue.
it is now official.
see the articles in french of today:.
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John Davis
It will require for the courts to approve the collective lawsuit. So it is only on the first step.
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UK: Revised UK child sexual 'consent' rules provoke backlash
by darkspilver inthere was some discussion here the other week regarding the updated letter:.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5072996442046464/september-1-2017-boe-re-protecting-minors-from-abuse.
including paragraph 14 - the issue appearing (?
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John Davis
It really highlights how complex the situation of child sexual abuse is and how even government agencies have to take certain aspects into account before they make a decision. In some jurisdictions, if the person who is the perpetrator exerts authority over the victim the penalties can be more severe, some jurisdictions it doesn't matter. Some jurisdictions give a couple of years of leeway for those approaching the age of consent so like if the age of consent is 16, so a 16-year-old might be able to have sex with a 13-year-old and it not is prosecuted or an 18 and a 16-year-olds. That is of course unless the parents pressure the prosecutors to file charges. So it is not always this cut and dry thing that so many people think it is. there is a lot of circumstances that must come into play.
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Help! Mike & Kim videos all being deleted by Youtube
by mrmagic indue to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
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John Davis
Stanford University has a good explanation on fair use. Again this is one of the most complex areas of law that is out there, but it is a good start.
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Help! Mike & Kim videos all being deleted by Youtube
by mrmagic indue to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
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John Davis
It is not always the amount of content but it is also how recognizable the content is. you might not have a problem showing 4 minutes of Star Wars desert and forest scenes and have no problem, but maybe 10 seconds of Darth Vador may nab you for a copyright violation. The difference is that the desert and forest scenes are not as recognizable as Darth Vador is.
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Help! Mike & Kim videos all being deleted by Youtube
by mrmagic indue to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
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John Davis
Fair use of copyrighted material is an extremely complex situation and is often dependent on how a particular court will view it as. It is more than just giving credit to someone else for their own copyrighted material, it is that the material cannot be distributed without the permission of the copyright owner. If you rebroadcast an NFL game, no one is thinking that you have created the content but that doesn't mean that you're not violating copyright material.
Generally, to not infringe on someone else's copyright you cannot use large amounts of the original material or you have to change it in some significant way. Some examples you can see on the internet is the videos Everything Wrong With..., where they will show clips of a movie and then mock it. They generally don't play the audio along with the video, this does two things it allows them to mock the movie but it also allows them to change the original content to help them get by copyright laws. That doesn't always work and many movie studios have gotten YouTube to take down their copyrighted material. They also will take a 90-minute movie and only show a fraction of the content down to like 15 minutes or less, again not showing the whole content but only a relatively small portion.
If you want to say a letter came out and it discusses xyz and then speaks about it that is certainly freedom of speech, but you cannot read the whole letter out and then say, well I interjected criticism, therefore, it is fair use. You could do that to any copyrighted work and then there would be no protection for anyone.
Same thing goes to playing an entire convention recording and saying because I stop it regularly to interject my comments, therefore, it is fair use under the criticism doctrine may or may not hold water. You have to be prepared to defend your reasons behind it.
And then there are some Ex-JW activists that don't just do it with Watchtower copyrighted material but also to the commercial copyrighted material. Six Screens uses music that is copyrighted by artists and even by NBC. So it may not just be watchtower that sends these out against EX JWs but it could be commercial ventures that own copyrighted material otherwise.
Again copyright law is extremely complex that is why there aren't a lot of IP attorney's out there, and the ones that are out there will tell you that it is rarely ever cut and dry.
As a side note, Cedars has been going on with his twitter account about how he isn't getting paid for some of his videos. When people do stuff like that, they become even more susceptible to copyright violation notices because it is proof that you are making money off of it and not just doing it for nonmonetary reasons.
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Are JWs the most corporate religion?
by cookiemaster ini find it pretty shocking how corporate the jw religion is.
i never saw it this way when i was in but now that i look at it from a different perspective, it seems quite clear.
much of the terminology used by jws is corporate inspired.
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John Davis
JWLeaks yes 1 corporation for every 90 publishers. That would be a corporation for the kingdom hall. A corporation has to hold the title of the real property.