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January 13, 2007 COPYRIGHT - I want to make it explicitly clear that the listing of a module here does not mean it abides by copyright law. (1) Simply put, I am not a copyright lawyer nor do I employ one for my site, so I do not know. If the original author cuts a deal for exclusive copyrights to his work, i.e. Gospel.com cuts a deal with NIV copyright holders for it on there site, I am not privileged nor do I have a right to know about that deal. That is private, and Gospel.com is responsible for their own actions. That means I cannot copy their files to my site, but it also means I am not legally involved by just linking to their site. (2) The creator and the website host of every e-Sword file is the ultimate people responsible for the copyright status of these things. (3) Some use the argument that owning a physical book allows a person to own an electronic version of that book (i.e. like scanning it) without paying the copyright owner a second time. That is in debate as I understand it.

The files which were created by me and hosted by me on my site (i.e. the URL has www.davidcox.com.mx) should all be out of copyright considerations, i.e. I am the copyright holder of the module, and I give permission for unilateral FREE distribution, (no selling nor charging for access), to the modules I have personally created. If you have a complaint or doubt about one of my files, then write me and I will investigate it. Everybody else's module listed here is their responsibility, I just link to it. Write them about any copyright problems first. When the link disappears on their site, in about a month or so I will see it is down and remove it from my site. IT IS NOT ILLEGAL NOR IMMORAL TO LINK! As I understand it the courts have upheld this point to date (linking is not breaking the law), and if anybody finds rulings contrary to this, please advise me and I will examine the issue. If newspaper cites a quote from a book, the newspaper is not responsible legally for everything that book pretends to represent. I can quote the Jehovah's Witnesses position about not allowing blood transfusions in their own words and works, but that does not make me responsible legally nor morally in any way.

That being the case, it is my position as a webmaster that linking to e-Sword modules is not illegal nor immoral, and that is even if the modules are copyright breaches. But since I do not want to cause a brother to stumble into sin by illegal activity (the downloading of this illegal copyrighted material is illegal), I will remove any links that I suspect or that people complain about. Write me.

If there is a problem with a file that is under copyright, ONLY THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR HIS LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE CAN PLACE A COMPLAINT (or take down order). If you do not have the copyright for the work, you are just as illegal in representing the owner without his permission as is the person who placed his file on the internet without his permission. Both activities are illegal, and break the copyright laws! All that being said, I will still work with anybody over these matters, and anything that potentially can be under copyright, I will remove until I see a legal permission from the author allowing posting of his material.

It is my understanding that the courts have always considered an original creator's rights as being limited. They expire, they are not impugn to any critical comments, etc. Brief quotes that do not comprise the majority of the work in critical reviews are completely legal and always have been. That is because the copyright owner has LIMITED RIGHTS over his work. The use of citations of a work in educational purposes has also always been permitted by the courts. This means that in an educational environment (teaching activities) that the copyright rules are lax, and even though that does not permit the complete copying of a work, substantial copying is apparently under view. Once a person owns a legally sold copy of a work, the copyright owner has little say over how that work can be used by the purchaser. Let's say somebody purchases your book to burn it. You as copyright owner have no rights over stopping him. All of these activities are WITHOUT ANY PERMISSION FROM THE COPYRIGHT OWNER. You just do them, and if the owner doesn't like it, tough.

The only exception to this, and this is very clear in copyright cases, is when the courts see that your activity affects the income of the copyright owner in selling his work. You cannot buy a copy, reprint it, and sell it cheaper, sell it at all, or give it away. This key point hinges on economic loss by the copyright owner in awarding him financial penalties awarded to him against the person affecting his income. This principle therefore hinges on the copyright owner having some presentation of selling of the copyrighted work, although a free offer of the work exclusively from the author is also strongly barring anyone else from offering it in any manner if the author disallows that.

December 31, 2007 - Well in November we passed 50 gigabytes (about 54) and December we are at 36Gb with two days over 4 GB downloaded in a single day. If you are having problems connecting, Mondays and Thursdays are the heaviest traffic days, and hour wise, the heaviest traffic on my site is from 1PM through about 6PM. USA and Mexico continue to be the heaviest visitors, and  a bunch others are visiting our site. About all South American countries and most English speaking countries are represented, but surprisingly Germany, Italy, France, Singapore, Norway, Netherlands, and Brazil are also high up on the list. I keep getting emails from people in Brazil (in Portuguese). I kind of understand them. Some real surprises are in China, Uganda, India, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Ethiopia, Israel, Ukraine, Romania, Russia, Zimbabwe, Slovenia, Kuwait, Iran, Pakistan, etc. I only have files in English and Spanish on my site! This month there were 577 people that stayed on my site more than an hour, and 1091 between a half hour and hour, and 1143 between 15 to 30 minutes. Thompson Chain Reference Dictionary was top module downloaded, followed by an Anonymous work on Plants and Animals of the Bible (DCT).

NEWS: Starting this year I am going to try to start transforming modules for the PC Pocket e-Sword version. I am not sure how much I will do myself, because we are working basically in TOP modules and very little else, and the e-Sword Pocket version uses regular RTF files for TOP, so it is kind of not even in the e-Sword program really. Most Mobile Operating Systems has a form of Microsoft Word that will open and read (and write) RTF files, so you won't even need e-Sword to read the RTF files. We will reformat them for the narrow format of the Pocket PC. I am still studying whether pdf or DOC or RTF is the best format for these files. But look for announcements and web pages. We are working on them and will start posting in a few days or a week or so. Also as an aside, e-Sword has no version for the Palm PDA devices, but since we are putting these library works into e-Sword format, PDF, OpenOffice odt, and RTF formats for my online library, we will also put them into pdb which is the Palm format. I am wanting to at least put up the KJV version of the Bible in this format for Palm users. We are going to develop this along side of the PC Pocket files.

November 25, 2007 - We have had to increase our hosting bandwidth because we have a limit of 50 gigabytes of traffic per month on this website, and it is close to that at present. So in other words, people have downloaded about 71 commercial CD-ROMs from this site in the month of November!

November 5, 2007 - I have put two anonymous works into Dictionary format, "Plants of the Bible," and "Animals of the Bible" from http://bartimaeus.us/articles_books.html. 11/09 Ryder - Priesthood of the Laity: Historically and Critically Considered (1511). See above for links.

October 25, 2007 -  I have started an RSS feed for the e-Sword modules to give you instant updates of new modules and e-Sword news. RSS  rssfeed.xml for news feeds about modules.

October 1, 2007 -  I have the e-Sword site more or less the way I want it, and we are working in making Spanish modules at the moment. (At least Carlos my assistant is.) I am working on my English pdf Library doing studies in Holiness and Hell pages for my sermons.

June 25, 2007 - Okay I just broken down with this junk of trying to tracks mods. I am going to abandon my pbwiki pages. Support answered my email about problems with URLS with spaces and said that it is a problem all over the net. Fine. If so, then why do my pages on my site work fine with spaces in the URLs? So the upshot is that I have redone all the TOPIC module pages, and I am breaking one of the rules I heard years back when I started with websites, i.e never use frames because search engines cannot find information on them. Okay. We'll give it a whirl and see. The pages are all new and click here to see the new Topic Database. Note that there are about 500 modules on these pages and probably well over a thousand links.

June 18, 2007 - I am extremely frustrated with all the forms of posting e-Sword modules. I have a blog and I have to remove dozens of pingback and talkbacks to sexually explicit pages, people selling junk, etc. I also was using pbwiki.com and now I find that their wiki replaces spaces in URLs with a "+", making half of my links bad. Okay. So I am going to go back to these pages on my website as my main place to put up modules, where to find them, etc. I have tried easily a dozen different ways, programs, website, etc. to keep tract of these stuff, and I have been disappointed with every one of them. They lack ability in on area or another, or they are just have problems.

March 30, 2007 - I am working on the Spanish side of this sight this past month. New files are: Baxter "Saint's Rest", Bonar "Everlasting Righteousness", Bonar "God's Way of Holiness", Baier "Compendium of Positive Theology".

Feb ??? TO BE ANNOUNCED, 07 - I am officially opening this site to the world by posting links around the Internet to it.

Feb 10, 07 - I put Brengle's 7 works in my library into e-Sword format. He live from 1860-1936, was a Methodist holiness preacher who worked in the Salvation Army. Described as "kindly, literate, and articulate an who left good memories with nearly everyone he met."

Feb 07 - Have started an extensive search of the Internet for e-Sword modules. Have come across some "e-Sword sites" that link to things that are not e-Sword. Some others where the actual e-Sword page does not exist any more (if it ever did). Depressing. I am working on making direct links in my listing to where files are, not links to other people's pages that later have absolutely nothing visible. Note I do a Google site search "e-Sword" site:www.samplesite.com. If Google does not have any records of their having e-Sword files, I doubt they had anything.

This website begun on February 05, 2007

Monthly Listing of New Modules

New Nov 07!
DCT: Thompson Chain Reference Dictionary - DCox zip Nov 10, 2007
CMT: Primitive Baptist Commentary vaugn71765
CMT: David Guzik commentary woodfiles
CMT: Hawker Poor Man Commentary vaughn71765
TOP: Ryder - The Priesthood of the Laity: Historically and Critically Considered (1511) Dcox zip
TOP: Anonymous - Plants and Animals of the Bible Dcox zip
TOP: Best - God's Longsuffering is Salvation  gospelgrace.com
TOP: Best - A Comprehensive View of Romans gospelgrace.com
TOP: Best - God Forgives Sinners gospelgrace.com
TOP: Best - God is Love gospelgrace.com
TOP: Best - Most Neglected Chapter in the Bible gospelgrace.com
TOP: Best - Christ's Kingdom is Future: Volume 1  gospelgrace.com
TOP: Best - Christ's Kingdom is Future: Volume 2  gospelgrace.com
TOP: Best - Christ's Kingdom is Future: Volume 3  gospelgrace.com
TOP: Best - Diminishing Spirituality in Local Church Rev 2&3 gospelgrace.com
TOP: Best - Eternity and Time gospelgrace.com
TOP: Best - Woman's Man's Completion gospelgrace.com

New e-Sword Help Page - Using E-Sword MEd

 New Oct 07
TOP: Rees - Fire from Heaven DCcox zip
TOP: Rees - Ideal Pentecostal Church DCox zip
TOP: Rees - The Holy War DCox zip
TOP: Reid - The Blood of Jesus (1866) DCox zip
TOP: Mackie - Gift of Tongues: Study in Pathological Aspects of Christianity DCox zip
TOP: Alexander, Archibald - Thoughts on Religious Experience DCox zip
TOP: Alexander, Archibald - Evidences of Christian Religion DCox zip
TOP: Alexander, Archibald - Outlines in Moral Science DCox zip
TOP: Alford, Henry - Limbo, Defense of Intermediary State DCox zip