06-11-2015, 01:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-11-2015, 01:28 PM by Steppingfeet.)
Some further clarifications to add:
As Austin said, the only two official L/L Research websites are www.llresearch.org (the archive website) and www.bring4th.org (the community website).
Additionally, there is www.lawofone.info. This is an independently produced website thanks to the mostly single-handed efforts of Tobey Wheelock. His website offers the Law of One material within the spirit and parameters of L/L Research, and has been undertaken in close friendship and collaboration with those of us at L/L. We know each other, we have worked together, and we have shared our lives with one another. We consider lawofone.info a sister website, and as such have listed it on our archive site, and in the top three listing on our Linkshare page. To date, Tobey has been the only person granted permission to publish entire L/L Research books on a website other than our own.
The startup website, lawofonesociety.com, contacted L/L regarding copyright permissions, but otherwise has no formal relationship or affiliation with L/L Research, nor do we know much about its creator. It is an independently run third-party website that, as Lorenzzo explains, seeks to help connect seekers, a noble goal, but also and interestingly seeks to be a “one-stop site" for the Law of One, according to Lorenzzo's statement in this thread. The latter goal is surprising considering it implies a desire to exclude and supplant those already offering this material and service.
There is great redundancy between his website and websites that already exist, and we don’t immediately see the value of everything considering the already available resources that have been refined over many years, but if he wants to create another portal to the material and create a social media platform for spiritual seekers, he is welcome to it, so long as copyright policies are acknowledged.
Regarding that copyright policy, L/L is fairly liberal and encourages the sharing of excerpts of its material across the internet but asks that instead of publishing whole transcripts or books on a website other than L/L Research’s, the third-party website instead link back to the source material at www.llresearch.org, with full and proper attribution of credit. Further, we always ask that each website be positively oriented with no intent to manipulate or deceive.
Lorenzzo presented a novel way of complying with copyright that hadn’t before been proposed. Using a reader, L/L's material would be completely visible on his website, but its actual source would be the archive website, www.llresearch.org. However, the way the books are currently displayed on the lawofonesociety website, it is not clear and obvious that the actual source of the material is L/L Research, nor that the material is copyrighted by L/L Research. We have asked Lorenzzo to include a note and a link to this end on each page that hosts an L/L Research book.
As some of you have pointed out, there are a lot of rough edges on his website that need smoothed out, but as it seems his site is a work-in-progress, we expect that he will work out the kinks as he goes along.
Love and Light to all,
GLB for L/L
As Austin said, the only two official L/L Research websites are www.llresearch.org (the archive website) and www.bring4th.org (the community website).
Additionally, there is www.lawofone.info. This is an independently produced website thanks to the mostly single-handed efforts of Tobey Wheelock. His website offers the Law of One material within the spirit and parameters of L/L Research, and has been undertaken in close friendship and collaboration with those of us at L/L. We know each other, we have worked together, and we have shared our lives with one another. We consider lawofone.info a sister website, and as such have listed it on our archive site, and in the top three listing on our Linkshare page. To date, Tobey has been the only person granted permission to publish entire L/L Research books on a website other than our own.
The startup website, lawofonesociety.com, contacted L/L regarding copyright permissions, but otherwise has no formal relationship or affiliation with L/L Research, nor do we know much about its creator. It is an independently run third-party website that, as Lorenzzo explains, seeks to help connect seekers, a noble goal, but also and interestingly seeks to be a “one-stop site" for the Law of One, according to Lorenzzo's statement in this thread. The latter goal is surprising considering it implies a desire to exclude and supplant those already offering this material and service.
There is great redundancy between his website and websites that already exist, and we don’t immediately see the value of everything considering the already available resources that have been refined over many years, but if he wants to create another portal to the material and create a social media platform for spiritual seekers, he is welcome to it, so long as copyright policies are acknowledged.
Regarding that copyright policy, L/L is fairly liberal and encourages the sharing of excerpts of its material across the internet but asks that instead of publishing whole transcripts or books on a website other than L/L Research’s, the third-party website instead link back to the source material at www.llresearch.org, with full and proper attribution of credit. Further, we always ask that each website be positively oriented with no intent to manipulate or deceive.
Lorenzzo presented a novel way of complying with copyright that hadn’t before been proposed. Using a reader, L/L's material would be completely visible on his website, but its actual source would be the archive website, www.llresearch.org. However, the way the books are currently displayed on the lawofonesociety website, it is not clear and obvious that the actual source of the material is L/L Research, nor that the material is copyrighted by L/L Research. We have asked Lorenzzo to include a note and a link to this end on each page that hosts an L/L Research book.
As some of you have pointed out, there are a lot of rough edges on his website that need smoothed out, but as it seems his site is a work-in-progress, we expect that he will work out the kinks as he goes along.
Love and Light to all,
GLB for L/L
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi
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