On Thursday, July 1, 2021 at 9:15:54 PM UTC-7,
wingo...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am quite well aware of that. I hate to say it and oppose it, but she had the right, after becoming the copyright owner to alter the terms of the deal.
ANSWER;
Wrong, when she began her phony lawsuits ONLY 3 (maybe 4) files had legal copyrights. Also, obtaining copyrights after the fact means nothing. Doc had already PUBLICLY given his permission to share his files, as acknowledged by the federal courts...
"The following facts are undisputed...Dr. Scott encouraged the download, reproduction, and redistribution of his Works, but he requested that his followers attribute the Works to Dr. Scott and not use the Works for commercial gain." - Federal Judge Manuel Real
Dr. Gene Scott could do anything he wanted to do WITH HIS FILES, anytime he wanted to. That was his obvious right.
By publicly making his statement that "all of them take my stuff of the Internet, and, that's really not a crime unless you try to reproduce it and sell it to someone else" Doc overtly donated his NON-COMMERCIAL rights to his teachings to the public domain TWO YEARS before his death.
Additionally; it wasn't until TEN YEARS after his death that Melissa began scrambling to acquire copyrights on Doc's files, and during the period of doing so she filed copyright lawsuits against people concerning files she had no copyrights for at the time of the alleged "copyright infringement."
In 2003, a full two years before his death, Dr. Gene Scott stood before his live congregation, and by cable TV, Short Wave Radio and by the Internet, made this statement to his students and listeners...
"And I...listen to John Hagee complaining a few weeks ago that his people, his listeners, were stealing, cause he paid so much for air time and he sells his messages and they were taking them off the TV...which, all of them take my stuff of the Internet, and, that's really not a crime unless you try to reproduce it and sell it to someone else."
At that time, only four of his teaching files (audio/video recordings) had copyrights on them, possibly as few as three. Three or four out of literally thousands of files (Doc's "works" as they are referred to) had copyrights.
It is estimated that between 60 and 70 thousand hours of Doc's teachings were digitized with the majority being freely available, freely downloadable, from his website for 10 years until Melissa shut the website down claiming the website had "crashed" a mere three weeks after Doc's death; a website that had be up and running perfectly for almost 10 years suddenly "crashes" immediately after his death.
When Doc made his statement (which is called an "overt act of copyright abandonment"), Melissa owned NOTHING of Doc's teaching files, his "works." TWO YEARS before Melissa "took possession" of Doc's works, Doc had already publicly stated that taking his files off the Internet was NOT a crime unless you do so re-selling them to other people.
Doc's statement authorizing and releasing people to share but don't sell his files was an obvious fete’ a compli two years before Melissa came into the picture.
Even though there were legally ONLY 3 or 4 files with actual registered copyrights on them in 2003 when Doc made his statement, concerning the remaining, having no copyrights, Doc gave his CLEAR permission, and facilitated, the downloading, possessing and sharing all of his files as long as it was without commercial gain.