I'd check the public domain angle as I've heard different more recently.
Dave e
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From: D G Mattichak jr <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:11:16
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Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Are Thelema and Wicca English?
Copyright Law makes anything that someone writes their property and the copyright lasts for 70 years after the death of the author. For books published before 1978 (I think) it is slightly different and copyright may last for 100 years after first publication. Most countries follow US copyright law.
In the case of the Book of the Law, I asked Samuel Weiser who owned the copyright and the answer that I got was that the Book of the Law was in the public domain (as are all of Crowley's writings). It is interesting that the front page of the original handwritten copy of the Book of the Law has a copyright office stamp on it indicating that he paid for it to be officially registered at some stage. I have posted a copy of it at http://www.scribd.com/doc/60936406/The-Book-of-the-Law-CCXX for anyone that hasn't seen this page which isn't usually included in the facsimiles of the handwritten text.
D G Mattichak
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