United States District Court for the Southern District of New York decision, issued October 24, 2003, in litigation brought by the Foundation for Inner Peace and the Foundation for A Course in Miracles against the New Christian Church of Full Endeavor and its Endeavor Academy over unauthorized reproduction of A Course in Miracles. The court held that the Foundation had lost copyright in the original 1976 through 1992 printings for want of a proper copyright notice, placing that first-edition text in the public domain, while copyright in the revised Second Edition, the Text Preface and Schucman's separate poetry remained valid.
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Tier one: the federal district court's own primary opinion, resolving the copyright status of A Course in Miracles's original and revised printings. Its strength is that it is the court's own authoritative record of what it held; its limit is that it settles the copyright question specifically, not the book's own content or teaching. NotesThe controlling published decision. Use for the exact copyright holding and its date; the theological argument the defendants raised is reported in the opinion itself but was not the basis of the ruling.
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AuthorUnited States District Court, Southern District of New York
PublisherFederal Supplement, Second Series
Publication Year2003
URLhttps://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/288/544/2509276/
Source TypeCase law
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