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Yup a recent book project that didn't happen involved uk brazilian and us copyright niggles. Straightforward it isn't Dave e Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -----Original Message----- From: Clive Harper <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Society for The Academic Study of Magic <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:40:25 To: <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Society for The Academic Study of Magic <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Are Thelema and Wicca English? Are you sure that there is a copyright office stamp? Might confusion have arisen with the pre-printed Crown etc on the note paper? Also having had some personal experience in UK copyright disputes, I can say that "most countries follow US copyright law" is rather an over-simplification of a very complex area. Clive On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:11 PM, D G Mattichak jr <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > 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 >