"imho the issue of who took who to court vis a vis remey needs clarified. it
was the remeyites who took nsa/usa to court.
too late to drop the case, remey oerdered them to desist. we don;t know why."
Dear Gabriel,
You've got this a little garbled. It was the Remeyites who filed suit against
the NSA laying claim to both their name and their property. The NSA then filed
a counter-suit for copyright infringement. Both suits were settled in the same
court case with the Remeyites losing both. The Remeyites originally intended to
appeal the court's decision but Mason Remey told them to withdraw the suit. I
expect this was because the only viable grounds for appeal would be to say you
can't copyright a religion. But to do that they would have to give up the
claims of their original suit.
There was a more recent copyright case involving the Jensenites who were using
the term UHJ to refer to their administrative council. At the behest of the
Universal House of Justice our own NSA filed suit. We lost that suit on the
technical grounds that it could be established the acronym "UHJ" was not used
in any official Baha'i correspondence and that in fact, they had disapproved
it. You can't claim copyright on the use of an acronym you reject. The
Jensenites, however, have misrepresented this case as indicating that the
courts (actually it was taken to mediation) had ruled that they were the
'true' Baha'i Faith.
warmest, Susan
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