[awareness]

In putting a copy of Tony Lambert's report on the Shouters in China on my domain, I noticed something odd. My Local Church folder was locked with notices, in my Jim Moran folder, from The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Jim Moran was an early opposer of Witness Lee and the Local Church on the web. He took the domain name "localchurch.com." Lee, Kangas, and LSM took him to the international court, claiming rights to the domain name, and lost their case.

In short, Jim Moran died, and his children assumed his intellectual property rights. Then LSM bought them, copyrighted them, hold's the rights to them exclusively, and apparently enforces it. The result is Jim Moran and his web material is apparently so powerful against Lee that they forbid anyone quoting from them, or re-posting them on the web. That would mean it's in violation of The World Intellectual Property Organization.

A brother had a packet of Moran's web material (I won't reveal his name) in hard copy ; something like 200 pages. He sent them to me and I scanned them into a pdf document.

I put them up on my domain, with no meta data to attract attention, thinking only to share the link with a few others. I forgot to take it down and it was found by LSM, who made my domain provider take it down with a WIPO warning.

I just thought I'd put this up here, as a matter of record.