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To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org From: Bill HeidrickSubject: Re: Copyrights Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:42:54 93, "Oz Mendes" wrote: >HOLY BOOKS ARE PUBLIC DOMAIN. They were first printed in 1909 >for members of the A.'.A.'. in the three volume THELEMA, along with >several A.'.A.'. instructional documents. Sorry to tell you, but that's why they are not public domain. A private printing for members is not a public sales edition. "Publication" = sales or distribution to the general public. The legal sense of "Publication" adds to that notion the requirement that the owner or author did or legally permitted the printing and sales/distribution. >Now a question remains, would this place the Equinox Vol I no 1- >whatever bfore 1912 still be public domain? Yes. Sold to the public before the latter part of 1912 e.v. Legally published before that date. However, OTO electronic files of that part of the Equinox contain original work -- notes, descriptions and formatting. Those files are in copyright. OTO allows and encourages free distribution of these and others through the Net and on AOL and Compuserve plus some BBS's. >We also have to address the issue of AC's uncopywritten materials. By >some interpretations, they are PD, and others they are not. All accounts I have seen of the standing of such unpublished work say that the work is in common law copyright or under statutory copyright, depending on the local laws. There are provisions in some countries which put at time limit on that. Some, like Germany, allow such works to return to copyright from public domain after a time if they qualify as culturally important. >Also, what of AC's diaries? (c)OTO :-) Incidentally, in an earlier post the question was asked: what threat is SOTO to OTO? Copyright and Trademark for one. For another, if SOTO does disregard the laws of the country and identifies itself as "OTO", we (OTO) are a much bigger target to get bashed. 93 93/93 Bill Heidrick ____________...oooOOO---thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org---OOOooo..._____________ To subscribe send: 'subscribe thelema93-l' to majordomo@hollyfeld.org To unsubscribe send: 'unsubscribe thelema93-l' to majordomo@hollyfeld.org http://www.hollyfeld.org/heaven
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