Rewritten or Reused? Originality, Intertextuality, and Reuse in the Writings of a Buddhist Visionary in Contemporary Tibet

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 203-231
Author(s):  
Antonio Terrone
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Way

The study of Buddhist texts can inform us of the way scriptures were composed, as well as illuminate the reasons behind their production. This study examines the phenomenon of borrowing and reusing portions of texts without attributing them to their ‘legitimate authors’ within the Buddhist world of contemporary Tibet. It shows that not only is such a practice not at all infrequent and is often socially accepted, but that it is used in this case as a platform to advance specific claims and promote an explicit agenda. Therefore, rather than considering these as instances of plagiarism, this essay looks at the practice of copying and borrowing as an exercise in intertextuality, intended as the faithful retransmission of ancient truths, and as an indication of the public domain of texts in Tibet.

Reconciliation in the Public Domain

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eddy Van der Borght
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Religious Symbol ◽  
The Public ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Reconciliation shifted in South Africa during the transition from being a contested idea in the church struggle to a notion proposed and rejected by the fighting parties and finally embraced by the two main political protagonists when they reached an agreement on the transition to a democratic order. This article analyses the layered meaning of the reconciliation concept within the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. On the basis of this description the questions that will be explored are whether reconciliation functioned as a religious symbol at the trc, and if so, in what way. In the conclusion, the way the concept of reconciliation itself was transformed due to the role it played in the transition in South Africa will be summarized and the consequences for theological research will be indicated.

Recent research into Minoan extra-urban sanctuaries

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 94-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Haysom
Keyword(s):  
Marked Change ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Full Publication ◽  
Opportune Time ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
The Way ◽  
Comprehensive Studies

In keeping with the new format of Archaeological Reports, this contribution takes a thematic approach. It seeks to draw wider attention to some of the diverse new primary research that has taken place since 2000 on Minoan (here glossed as Proto- and Neopalatial) extra-urban sanctuaries. For many years, discussion of these sites has largely involved synthesis. No example of a Minoan extra-urban sanctuary has ever progressed all the way from systematic excavation to full publication. Some of the best reported examples, such as the Psychro Cave (Watrous 1996) or the peak sanctuary of Petsophas (Rutkowski 1991), were excavated at the beginning of the 20th century. Until the period covered by this review, there were only one or two cases where sites excavated more recently had benefited from extended preliminary publications. This has meant that synthetic treatments have been highly dependent, in the majority of cases, on extremely brief notices of excavations or on scholars' impressions from simply visiting sites. The last 15 years have witnessed a marked change of pace. New sites have been discovered and excavated, extensive studies of old material have been produced and, most importantly, the first comprehensive studies of some of the assemblages of objects from these sites have come into the public domain. As a result, this is an opportune time to highlight a dynamically evolving field of research.

Article 14—Works of Visual Art in the Public Domain

2021 ◽  
pp. 239-249
Author(s):  
Eleonora Rosati
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Way

This chapter highlights the works of visual art in the public domain stipulated in Article 14 of Directive 2019/790, copyright order in Europe. It discusses the term of protection of a work of visual art, which is not subject to copyright or related rights when deemed expired. It also reviews rapid technological developments that continue to transform the way works and other subject matter are created, produced, distributed, and exploited. The chapter cites the Commission Communication of 9 December 2015 entitled, which states that it is necessary to adapt and supplement the existing Union copyright framework, while keeping a high level of protection of copyright and related rights. It explains that cultural heritage institutions cover publicly accessible libraries and museums regardless of the type of works or other subject matter that they hold in their permanent collections.

The WikiLeaks Arctic cables

Polar Record ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus J. Dodds
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
The Way ◽  
What Matters

ABSTRACTThis note considers some of the WikiLeaks Arctic cables, and their possible implications for how we might understand the framing of the region. What matters is not so much the content of the leaked cables but rather the way in which their release stirred up debate about the underlying behaviour and motivation of interested parties, especially the Arctic Ocean coastal states. Their existence in the public domain usefully highlights the potential role for new knowledge networks and actors in the www era.

God in the Public Domain

Exchange ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-338
Author(s):  
Tharcisse Gatwa
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Competition ◽  
The One ◽  
Moral Guidance ◽  
The Way

God has been very much present in public domain in the life of Rwandans. Every successful enterprise would lead Rwandans to pay tribute to God. At the end of every other failed try the Rwandan would say, ‘ahasigaye ni ah’Imana’ — I have done what I could, the rest belongs to God. His overwhelming presence was expressed in many ways including by theophoric names. This God celebrated by the triumphant ‘Christian kingdom’ came under fire attacks during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, many of them being slaughtered in churches and public buildings. Had God, the life Giver and the protector, become a cynical destroyer, an executioner, or simply a sleeper who didn’t care for his creatures? Irrespective to these unanswered questions, the post 1994 genocide Rwandan religious era was imbued with another form of triumphalism, in which God was called, celebrated, and inaugurated as the One who showed the way to new charismatic movements to bring about a spiritual revolution in the country, whilst traditional Christianity remained ambivalent towards the moral guidance they were expected to provide. Yet many survivors continue to tell of their deception about such a ‘silent and cynical’ God, or at the best they wonder if their fate was sealed with His consent and that of His heralds on earth. This paper takes the view that religious competition and triumphalism of the clergy over crowds that continue to fill in areas of worship, amplified the feeling that God is still a very marketable good in Rwanda. And yet he never ran away from the victims of the tragedies.

Online News: User Agreements and Implications for Readers

2002 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 602-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Smith Ekstrand
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Online News ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fundamental Shift ◽  
News Online ◽  
The Way

This study is a legal analysis of the online news user agreements of the Top 50 U.S. daily circulation newspapers in the United States. News user agreements are contracts that specify the conditions under which readers may access news. The contracting of news online represents a fundamental shift in the way consumers, who once bought their news, must now agree to terms of access. This study concludes that such terms often expand ownership of content that might otherwise flow freely in the public domain. It also concludes that limitations on liability as expressed in these agreements raise questions about the commitment to free speech and journalistic values online.

New Mediations

2002 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marni Cordell ◽  
Sam de Silva
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Diversity ◽  
The Media ◽  
Independent Media ◽  
The Right ◽  
Media Corporations ◽  
The Way

The late 1990s saw the global rebirth of an independent media movement of a magnitude and strength not seen since the 1970s. Both the escalation of anti-corporate-globalisation sentiment and the establishment of the IndyMedia online network can be seen as strong catalysts for a media activism that is characterised by the desire to encourage widespread participation in the media-making process. ‘Participatory media’ is based in the democratic philosophy that anybody has the right to tell their own story, and aims to encourage media diversity by breaking down the information stronghold held by a small number of large and powerful media corporations. This essay examines the way in which the internet has contributed to the facilitation of a greater diversity of views, news, opinions and voices into the public domain.

“Twixt the Cup and the Lip:” Field Notes on the Way to Print

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 119-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Henige
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Audio Tape ◽  
Subsequent Work ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Principal Source ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Paper Format ◽  
The Way

Typically—very typically—fledgling African historians launch their careers by engaging in a bout of fieldwork, sometimes in archives, but more often on location among a group of people whose activities have somehow captured their interest. Almost as typically, this work in the field then becomes the principal source for historians' future published work, which often never proceeds beyond the bounds set by the initial fieldwork.In this process of course the data accumulated in the field—field notes—become, possibly over and over again, the primary sources for this subsequent work. In some ways this process is not particularly different from that undertaken by other historians who use printed sources more heavily. There are differences, though, not the least of which is that these orally derived field notes grow stale with the passing of time and cannot be revivified as easily as archival notes.Moreover, of course, far more often than not, field notes are never allowed to escape into the public domain, whereas archival sources are usually already there when the historian sets about using them. What were once laboriously handwritten notebooks, and then audio tapes are now more likley to be 3.5″ diskettes, but otherwise they are as jealously guarded in the 1990s as they were in the 1950s. Indeed, perhaps moreso, in that the usable lifespan of a diskette is likely to be significantly less than that of the notebook, if not of the audio tape. In short, in perhaps twenty years posterity will find itself forced to rely on the published products—maybe yet in paper format?—rather than on the raw data which once underpinned them. In the circumstances, it might be worth considering once again the implications of this, with reference to a particular instance of respectable vintage.

scholarly journals Failures in Leadership

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofer Feldman ◽  
Ken Kinoshita ◽  
Peter Bull
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Way ◽  
Opposition Parties

Abstract This paper examines how Japanese leading politicians deal with the communicative problems posed to them during broadcast political interviews. Based on data gathered during 14-month period in 2012–2013, the paper replicates and modifies the “Theory of Equivocation” to explore the extent to which national and local level politicians endeavor to affect the content of information distributed to the public and to influence the way people perceive events that take place in the public domain. Differentiating among selected groups of politicians, i.e., ruling and opposition parties’ members, Cabinet ministers and prime ministers, and local level politicians, the paper focuses on the ways Japanese politicians (and for comparison also nonpoliticians) equivocate during televised programs and the conditions underlying this equivocation, thereby also assesses the significance of these talk shows in the broader context of political communication in Japan.

Heritage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Shaikh ◽  
Stefano Bonino
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Online Video ◽  
The South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Community Heritage ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The Way

The Colourful Heritage Project (CHP) is the first community heritage focused charitable initiative in Scotland aiming to preserve and to celebrate the contributions of early South Asian and Muslim migrants to Scotland. It has successfully collated a considerable number of oral stories to create an online video archive, providing first-hand accounts of the personal journeys and emotions of the arrival of the earliest generation of these migrants in Scotland and highlighting the inspiring lessons that can be learnt from them. The CHP’s aims are first to capture these stories, second to celebrate the community’s achievements, and third to inspire present and future South Asian, Muslim and Scottish generations. It is a community-led charitable project that has been actively documenting a collection of inspirational stories and personal accounts, uniquely told by the protagonists themselves, describing at first hand their stories and adventures. These range all the way from the time of partition itself to resettling in Pakistan, and then to their final accounts of arriving in Scotland. The video footage enables the public to see their facial expressions, feel their emotions and hear their voices, creating poignant memories of these great men and women, and helping to gain a better understanding of the South Asian and Muslim community’s earliest days in Scotland.

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