Amazing
It’s amazing the shortsightedness of some people. One of my favorite places to go and learn about Wicca has come under fire by someone who felt the desire to report, falsely, to Llewellyn that the owner of the school was offering for free download, PDF copies of portions of books or entire books published by Llewellyn. I know for a fact this is not at all true, the courses the books in question are required for state clearly that you must purchase a copy of the book in order to take the course. Now the school’s owner may have quoted from the books in the lessons, but last I checked it was legal to quote from a book. However, even though she offered to allow the people at Llewellyn and the author of said books to view the school and see that no downloads are permitted and the she is quoting portions of the book for understanding and emphasis in her lessons, the author has sent threatening emails.
Frankly, I feel this sets us, as Wiccans, way back in educating people on who and what we are. It is hard enough for us to educate people as to who we are, what we stand for, what we believe, and what we do.
However, a big part of this is that copyright law is extremely hard to understand. There is a section dealing with educational use of copyrighted materials, but it is hard to understand. There’s no way of knowing if someone’s online school of Wicca, that they offer for free to anyone who wishes to take the courses is covered under that.
I am disappointed that anyone would take the time to send out emails falsely accusing a great lady of doing something she has never done. She’s always asked that you purchase the book and has never offered a download of any PDF files of any portion of a book. It makes me sick to think that people can be so petty and cruel.
There will not be a Wander the Web Wednesday this week. I’ll be back next week, hopefully.
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