Omissions?

[The following is adapted from a note previously appearing on the CP Geocities site.]

Some of you (I occasionally like to delude myself that there are a few fans of CP out there) may have noticed a glaring omission from the materials I have posted on Scribd or discussed in this blog. Celephaïs Press editions of works by Aleister Crowley have not been uploaded to Scribd by me, or linked to here. These works are — certainly in the UK, and in the case of materials first published after 1923, in the US as well — still in copyright, and are so for another eight years. E-texts of several (including Equinox vol. I and vol. III no 1, Konx Om Pax, The Sword of Song, The Book of Lies, Book Four, Magick Without Tears, Liber Aleph, Tannhäuser, 777 Revised, Little Essays Toward Truth, The Heart of the Master and about 75% of the extant numbered libri) were prepared in the mistaken belief that the general policy of the holders to the copyrights in them was — with the exception of some works which were not written for publication in the first place — to tolerate non-commercial webpostings as long as their copyright was acknowledged; experience has shown that this is not the case, in fact it is within my knowledge that various website administrators, including the management of Scribd, have been requested to remove CP editions of Crowley’s works from their sites. Copies of most of these works still exist online in various places not under my control; however since about 2005 the only postings under my direct control have been limited to revised or corrected editions of works I had previously posted and not been reprimanded for or ordered to take down.