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Originally Posted by rayliotta
Once it's established that there is such a thing as "the ministry of the age", and that you are the one bringing it to God's people "in this age" .... doesn't that kinda imply that your ministry is irreplaceable?
I'm sure there are many relevant references. This might not be a bad place to start --
http://www.lsm.org/uniqueNTministry/remaining7.html
I was going to include some excerpts, but I know that LSM has a rather ungracious copyright policy. So I'm going to err on the side of, er, paranoia, until maybe UntoHim will comment on quoting LSM pubs here in the forum.
I'm mostly looking at the last 3-4 sections. Witness Lee threads the needle so smoothly, all the way right up to the present leadership. He says all the churches are supposed to be identical. Now how could they be identical unless they line themselves up with the ordained ministry? |
LSM does not write copyright law. The purpose for copyright law is to protect the rights of those who publish to encourage them to publish while allowing their work to be quoted.
Under the "fair use" rule of copyright law, an author may make limited use of another author's work without asking permission. Fair use is based on the belief that the public is entitled to freely use portions of copyrighted materials for purposes of commentary and criticism.
I understand "limited use" in this case to be around 500 words. I would think anything less than 100 words is clearly "limited use" whereas anything over 500 could be seen differently by a jury. 200-500 words is a grey area in my opinion. Likewise percent of the thread would be relevant. So if a thread were say 2,000 words and only 200 were a quote from WL that also would be, in my mind, "limited use".