Dear Pancharatna Prabhu,
This is our last email, explaining our understanding of the situation.
We have covered and explained the issue several times over by now.
- Regarding BBT(i) contacting archive.org, we have emails from the BBT
to other devotees showing that BBT contacted archive.org in relation
to us, while we were still in conversations, and other similar black
and white examples exist at your disposal.
- We offer our services to all devotee websites what to speak of the
BBT. It seems that BBT itself is not asking for help. Your good self
has already used some of our services like nectarshare.com,
pariprashnena.com, wiki.pariprashnena and worldsankirtan google group.
How is that for cooperation?
> The BBT is not trying to stop anyone from putting their own Krishna
> conscious content anywhere, but only trying to protect Srila Prabhupada’s
> property by exercising some basic controls.
So, if you are not trying to stop iskconmedia, what are we talking about here?
Your conditions are not “basic” but clearly elitist and crippling the
internet preaching.
We already asked BBT to give special arrangement as we do not fit any
of the possible offender categories, but remember: BBT has cut short
our conversations until we decrease the 20.000 photos to 20 low res
pics.
> All of these are great. But when there are two sites competing in the same
> market exclusive content is also very important.
You are talking about two physical shops in the same street, not about
the internet. You are talking about the Industrial age not the
Information Age.
Napster was closed and Bittorrent and a dozen similar clones were
created, so trying to stop digital sharing is a waste of time and not
very intelligent.
Many music bands, famed writers, etc. have realized by now that more
their digital content is freely
spread, more profit they make with their hardcopy sales and all the
other ways of monetizing.
We better adjust to the new paradigm or succumb to it.
CONCLUSION
All our problems are solved attributing a Creative Commons license to
the BBT digital material and having proper hard copy sale outlets.
CC regulates problems of piracy (copy and distribution for profit) and
manipulation of material by mayavadis, etc as CC license does not allow such
actions –>> http://creativecommons.org
your servants at Iskcontech
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bhaktine sylvie Said:
June 30th, 2008 at 1:33 am
I just discover your very beautiful site ! Jay, I’m going to come back later on…
I was in fact looking for a black and white picture of Srila Prabhupad sitting outside and leading kirtana on a podium close to Jagannath (bare headed)
I have copied this beautiful picture some years ago on the net and put it on our liflets for the Ratha Yatra….. but I can’t find it for our posters… I do not remember the site and my copy is not a high resolution one)
It’s a very good idea to provide high resolution pictures !
obeisances, Prabhus
your servant
Gauravani dasi Said:
February 1st, 2009 at 10:54 am
All Glories to this wonderful website! All glories to your service!
If the materialists are learning to cooperate among themselves in sharing information through their free culture and open source movements or copyleft movements, why can’t we devotees do? In fact we should be the model.
I totally find the BBT’s copyright policies very impractical in the present digital age. It is not just our right to distribute Prabhupad and his teachings. It is our duty. By trying to follow this ridiculous copyright business, BBT is not only restricting internet preaching, it is not realising that when we share preaching materials so it can be distributed to the masses, we are making those people that take and share our materials copyright criminals. . Do we want to do that? This is why the Creative Commons licensing is a very practical thing to consider.
It will be best if you can make the site legally respectable in this way. I would humbly suggest that those photos which are not BBT copyrighted can be CC licensed. So if there is a choice which pictures I will use for our community posters and newsletters, or temple program, I will not use the BBT ones.
Anyhow, thank you. This site is a legend.
Gdd