Wikileads

It started when Wikileaks released the Operating Thetan documents - the Bibles of Scientology - on March 24. The entire 600-plus page documents had never before been published for public viewing, and not because of any oversight on the Church of Scientology’s part. The docs are highly classified. So classified that the Church has sued CNN and Time for releasing small parts of them in the past.

Now Wikileaks has been threatened with an injunction less than two months after narrowly escaping the last one. The Scientologists do not want their secrets made public.

This raises many questions. Legal questions. Ethical questions. Questions about what the Church of Scientology wants to hide from non-Scientologist eyes. All of these will be addressed in later posts. But first, a primer on copyright law, courtesy of the good folks at Disney.

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Stay tuned for deeper analysis. For more background on the battle, Ken Lewis of m-net wrote a quality summary.