Mormon Discussion’s podcast production is certainly not connected to The Mormon Church aka The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It also is most assuredly not approved or endorsed by Intellectual Reserve, Inc or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Any of the awesome content or the solid opinions expressed, implied or included in Mormon Discussion Inc’s awesome podcast lineup and production are solely those of Mormon Discussion Inc. and/or its program hosts and not those of Intellectual Reserve, Inc. or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mormon Discussion Inc is a 501(c)(3) and is in the arena of journalistic work and is part of a free press. A free press is fundamental to a democratic society. It seeks out and circulates news, information, ideas, comment and opinion and holds those in authority to account. The press provides the platform for a multiplicity of voices to be heard. At national, regional and local level, it is the public’s watchdog, activist and guardian as well as educator, entertainer and contemporary chronicler. Under the “fair use” defense, however, another author may make limited use of the original author’s work without asking permission. Fair use is based on the belief that the public is entitled to freely use portions of copyrighted materials for purposes of commentary and criticism.
The fair use privilege is perhaps the most significant limitation on a copyright owner’s exclusive rights.
Subject to some general limitations discussed later in this article, the following types of uses are usually deemed fair uses:
- Criticism and commentary: for example, quoting or excerpting a work in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment. A book reviewer would be permitted to quote passages from a book in a newspaper column, for example, as part of an examination of the book.
- News reporting: such as summarizing an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report. A journalist would be permitted to quote from a political speech’s text without the politician’s permission.
- Research and scholarship: perhaps quoting a short passage in a scholarly, scientific, or technical work for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations. An art historian would be able to use an image of a painting in an academic article that analyzes the painting.
- Nonprofit educational uses: for example, when teachers photocopy limited portions of written works for classroom use. An English teacher would be permitted to copy a few pages of a book to show to the class as part of a lesson plan.
- Parody: that is, a work that ridicules another, usually well-known, work by imitating it in a comic way. A comedian could quote from a movie star’s speech in order to make fun of that star.
Love your podcasts! Starting off with the dilemma of Fair Mormon’s name in regards to Pres. Nelson’s statement of how God and Christ are offended by the use of “Mormon” and killing it with Bednar’s statement to choose not to be offended, was brilliant! It was good to know the inside workings of Fair Mormon and knowing that they, like the LDS Church, cover, hide and really don’t answer the difficult questions.
Your ability to select such appt classic music in reference to your podcasts is uncanny and awe-inspiring. I salute you! Thank you so much for your hard work in creating you informative and enlightening content.
I love Your podcasts. They are always full great content. It does, however, seem like a 30 minute podcast gets turned into 2 hours when Bill is involved?
I am surprised about the way fairmormon shut up Bill Reel. To silence people like that and completely delete their names is a form of fascism. The church is doing the same with its critics. These are interesting times.
Anyway some of the lectures on the fairmormon webpage are very interesting indeed.
Hey, are you Coast Guard? You start your podcast with the Coast Guard Battle Hymn, took me off guard a bit. Wondering why you chose Semper Paramus as your intro. Love the podcast! Keep it up!
where oh where is RFM?
This Sunday perhaps………
I would like to send a private message to Bill or RFM. Is there a link somewhere?
Mormondiscussionspodcasts AT gmail DOT com
Still going on about “Joseph Smith’s Polygamy,” despite the volumes of evidence against it, Brigham Young’s admission to Schuyler Colfax that polygamy was a commandment “given to him and a few others.”
There is NO evidence linking Joseph Smith to the “drawn sword.” The first account comes well after Joseph’s death. It’s all HEARSAY. It didn’t happen. C’mon, fellas… exercise some common sense here. You’re both smarter than this.
“NO” evidence? You’ve already ruined your poor attempt by using a definitive “NO”. I am quite shocked that you have made this assertion considering it is a revelation given to Joseph Smith in the D&C. Maybe you are just trolling?
Have you seen the new HBO series Chernobyl? I highly recommend it. I couldn’t help but feel like it was a representation of the LDS church.
“What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we will mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, than we will no longer recognize the truth at all.” “When the truth offends, we lie and we lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth and sooner or later, that debt is paid.”
-Chernobyl