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Lessig's Next Copyright Proposal
Fiver-rah writes "The Supreme Court voted for Disney in Eldred vs. Ashcroft. Lessig's next proposal is a policy solution which needs our help. He proposes that 50 years after publication, a work falls into the public domain unless a small fee ($50 in the NYT piece, but he says $1 is sufficient here) is paid to a governing board. This has two important effects. First, it allows the vast majority of works to fall into the public domain. Second, it gives us a publicly searchable database of copyright holders, so we could easily determine what was free and what was not. Support this proposal by writing to your elected officials! We couldn't make much of a difference with the Supreme Court, but we can with Congress." Update: 01/18 20:50 GMT by T : Related news: An anonymous reader writes "With the support of Lessig infoAnarchy has set up a wiki page devoted to copyright issues."
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Q: How does one get saved?
A: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Grace means unmerited favor and free gift, Meaning we don't deserve to be saved but God loves us anyway and gives us the faith, it is the faith that God gives us that saves us, not our own. Paul clearly says it's not of works, meaning it's nothing that we do that saves us, except of coarse
believing that God sent his only begotten Son in the world to die for the sins of the world and that God hath raised him from the dead.
Q: After the faith is given to us, do we continue to sin?
A: NO!, Now this IS GREAT NEWS!
A: Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him:
and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
A: Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
A: For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Q: Why then do many say we need to ask for forgiveness for sins?
A: Nowhere in the bible does it say you have to ask forgiveness for your sins, many have misunderstood the term "repent" and we know
that asking for something that Christ has already done for us by his dying on the cross, is indeed of works, not of faith. Repent means to turn from. I've always interpreted Repent as "Turn from disbelief to belief". Some churches could find it more profitable to keep you under the law, and
some people in our society would rather have you kept under the law.
Q: I hear often that you have to accept Christ in order to be saved, is this true?
A: Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
A: Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also
glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
A: We are chosen by Christ, "accepting Christ" sure sounds like works.
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18. And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! 19. And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 20. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. 21. And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.