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921 Tithing Principles and Guidelines, p. 4.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… several legally required payroll deductions, and other deductions that may be directed to tax shelters, retirement programs and insurance policies.
922 Tithing Principles and Guidelines, p. 22.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… before legally required or other employee authorized deductions. This includes federal and state income taxes which provide for services and other benefits …
923 The Truth About The White Lie
… no legal grounds for action against your book and we do not think that we have ever raised any objection or made any claim such as you speak of. Quoted in Francis …
924 The Truth About The White Lie, p. 3.4 (Ellen G. White Estate & Biblical Research Institute)
… the legality of literary borrowing, Attorney Vincent Ramik, who is not a Seventh-day Adventist, investigated Ellen White’s use of sources according to the …
925 The Truth About The White Lie, p. 4.5 (Ellen G. White Estate & Biblical Research Institute)
… and legality current in her own day.“Brief Statements,” p. 8. See Vincent L. Ramik, “Memorandum of Law: Literary Property Rights, 1790-1915,” pp. 5-7. In Greene v. Bishop …
926 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 2.2 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
… , chief legal officer of the General Conference, retained the services of Diller, Ramik & Wight last April because of allegations made against Mrs. White by …
927 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 2.3 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
… American legal history. He concluded his 27-page legal opinion with an unequivocal declaration:The complete document, plus this reprint, may be obtained …
928 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?
“Based upon our Review of the facts and legal precedents ... Ellen White was not a plagiarist, and her works did not constitute copyright infringement/piracy.”
929 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 2.4 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
The legal report was delivered to Johns’s office late last month. It responds specifically to six questions:
930 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 2.6 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
2. Was the payment of royalties by publishers a standard legal and business practice at that time?
931 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 2.17 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
… the legal bounds of ‘fair use.’
932 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 2.20 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
“Proceeding with but the highest motivations and intentions,” said Ramik, Mrs. White, in fact “modified, exalted, and improved” much of that which others wrote, in a manner entirely ethical, as well as legal.
933 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 3.1 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
Review : Attorney Ramik, how much did you know about Seventh-day Adventists in general, and Ellen White in particular, before you were asked to research the legal questions involved in Mrs. White’s use of literary sources?
934 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 3.4 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
… Conference Legal Services office, contacted me and asked perhaps a half-dozen questions, in the abstract, about plagiarism, literary piracy, copyright infringement …
935 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 4.12 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
… your legal opinion, Mr. Ramik, you pointed out that many of the works Mrs. White is accused of “stealing” were, in fact, not copyrighted by either author or publisher …
936 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 4.13 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
… purely legal definition of plagiarism. Of course, elsewhere, he attacks Mrs. White on moral grounds, on ethical use of others’ materials. Well, first, he’s totally …
937 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 4.16 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
… the legal case of Emerson v. Davies, Massachusetts Circuit Justice Story in effect exonerates a writer who has used other men’s words and ideas and woven …
938 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 5.4 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
… our legal archives there is an inscription over the door, “Past Is Prologue.” I believe that applies to writings, too.
939 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 5.5 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
Ellen White used the writings of others; but in the way she used them, she made them uniquely her own, ethically, as well as legally. And, interestingly, she invariably improved that which she “selected”!
940 Was Ellen G. White A Plagiarist?, p. 5.9 (Adventist Review & Vincent L. Ramik)
… the legal boundaries of “fair use,” and all the time created something that was substantially greater (and even more beautiful) than the mere sum of the component …