Free The Word Project By Brandon Vogt

[Lil Red]

http://brandonvogt.com/free-word/

 

 

The problem: Right now, many of the faithful are being restricted from fully sharing Scripture and other teachings of the Church in the most effective ways. We need to be flooding the world with the lumen fidei—the light of our faith—yet there are current Church policies preventing this from happening.

 

The current licensing policy for the most essential texts and teachings of the Church (e.g. the Bible, the Catechism, encyclicals, etc.) are making it difficult, expensive, or impossible for Catholics to fairly reproduce and share them. This well-meaning but imprudent policy is directly hampering the Church's evangelistic mission (as is clearly shown below).

 

It doesn't have to be this way! There is a just and easy solution that will both:

• protect the integrity of these important texts
• and free them to be shared and consumed by more people throughout the world.

(The solution I propose is distributing these essential texts using a Creative Commons-Attribution-NoDerivs license. I explain this below.)

 

But we need your help in asking the Holy See (and, by extension, the USCCB) to update this policy.

 

If you would like to see Scripture and the official teachings of the Church set free so that more people can share and consume them (while still protecting the integrity of the texts), we need your support!

 

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He explains fully at the link. :) 

[arfink]

Very smart stuff. The only complaint I can see anyone making against the CC-ND licensing is that it's not been tested in court in most countries. That said, I think it's a pretty soundly written license, and violation of its terms would then constitute a violation of copyright, so it's probably pretty safe.

[Amppax]

This is great!