Paywalling God
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Who owns the words of Scripture? Does rearranging them change the answer?
We Christians living in the West have inherited a copyright — really, an entire ‘intellectual property’ — regime that rests upon a number of premises, presumptions, presuppositions. It is contended that authors, et al., benefit from the regime. Do they? It is contended that creativity and productivity are incentivized by the regime. Are they?
Even if the contentions that undergird the present copyright regime are, arguendo, true, does that mean that it is morally permissible to subject theological works (at least the sound ones) to the strictures of such system?
What is the purpose of copyright?
What is the purpose of theology?
Are these compatible?
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| 0:00.0 | The The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm Woe. Before we get into today's |
| 0:44.6 | episode proper, just a few housekeeping matters. First, the feedback form we mentioned in the last |
| 0:51.5 | episode, we have already received some feedback. We've added some suggestions to our list of future topics. Thank you for the feedback so far. |
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| 1:21.3 | You can send us feedback that way or ask a question if you would prefer to get a faster answer. |
| 1:22.0 | The feedback form does not currently include a way for you to include an email address. |
| 1:26.6 | Maybe I'll add that, make it optional. |
| 1:28.5 | But if you have a question and want an answer, the Telegram Channel is probably the fastest way to |
| 1:33.9 | get that. And then third and last for the housekeeping matters, we would just ask that you, |
| 1:41.0 | this a prayer request. We would ask that you pray for us, if you remember, on Tuesday |
| 1:46.1 | morning since we record on Tuesdays, or whenever during the week, the time certainly does not |
| 1:52.4 | matter for God, just that our audio equipment would continue to function and that the Gremlins |
| 2:00.3 | would be kept at bay. We haven't had any significant |
| 2:02.9 | issues recently. We've seemingly managed to get over that hump, but every time we turn everything |
| 2:08.9 | on it, it actually works. It's a pleasant surprise. So anyway, that is the end of the housekeeping |
| 2:15.2 | matters for now. So on to the actual episode. |
| 2:22.1 | In this episode, we will be discussing the issue of copyright and intellectual property from a Christian perspective. |
| 2:32.4 | And so what we are advocating is that there needs to be a return to Christians |
| 2:37.7 | acting as Christians, even in the marketplace in the public square. Whatever the purpose of |
| 2:45.6 | copyright may have originally been, and we will get into that in this episode, it has certainly not panned out. |
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