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- Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:14 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11051
Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
Food recipes was perhaps a poor example, but it demonstrates the sheer arbitrariness of the law. From this article: Cooking is not considered inventing; rather, it evolves. ...so, music and technology are created by the "person"? They don't simply evolve no differently than with cooking? ...
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:48 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11051
Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
Copyright doesn't just protect ownership over a particular physical arrangement and embodiment of information (ex: a chocolate cake), but instead protects ownership over any particular arrangement with the same information (ex: any chocolate cake made with the same recipe). So, it is basically gran...
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:10 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11051
Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
You are welcome.
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:12 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11051
Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
It's important to separate three issues here: first, whether people have a "right" to own copies (whether violating copyright is theft), second, the ethics of actually producing copyrighted material, and third, the efficacy of using copyright for dhamma materials. Bhikkhu Bodhi, the BPS, ...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:30 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11051
Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
I might prefer to call the Dhamma the intellectual "capital" of the Sangha, rather than intellectual "property". "Capital" because it is for the Sangha's growth, rather than "property" because that would entail too many implications of "ownership". B...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:06 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11051
Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
Thank you, Bhante. I am surprised to hear that Thailand has few copyright restrictions, given its modern legal system being modelled on the Civil Law of Europe. My hazy recollection of European copyright laws is that it is certainly more "developed" than the Anglo-American systems. I wonde...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:58 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11051
Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
If it was done with the "bodhicitta aspiration" (helping others to attain enlightenment) then it might be justified. But in Theravada terms, there might be some problems with it, even though in the Bhikkhu Vinaya there is no such thing as "stealing intellectual property" (a mode...
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:11 am
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: Physical pain - nama or rupa?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2935
Re: Physical pain - nama or rupa?
Painful bodily feeling is the vedanā that accompanies the fifth of the seven types of unwholesome-resultant consciousness (akusala-vipāka citta), namely, unwholesome-resultant bodily consciousness accompanied by pain (dukkhasahagataṃ kāyaviññāṇaṃ). The basis (vatthu) of this citta is rūpa, but the ...
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:02 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Sankhara
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6893
Re: Sankhara
Many thanks, Ben.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:07 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Sankhara
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6893
Re: Sankhara
Hello Element Hope you can help me with the "kaya sankhara". Does MN 44 or any other sutta draw a distinction between kaya sankhara as an activity (ie breathing) and breath as the product of that activity? I note that the Commentary to MN 118, in explaining "sabba kaya patisamvedi&quo...