2017-12-25

Hello, hello, hello -- is there anybody in there?

CP activity has for a while been more or less limited to me contesting false positives from Scribd's copyright bot, and that only when I actually remember to check the largely abandoned email account to which the notifications get sent.

Speaking of copyright issues, as far as my understanding of UK copyright law stands, term for written works of known authorship is still author's life plus seventy years.  As such, the works by Aleister Crowley mentioned in this posting from 2009 are, or will very shortly be, public domain in this country or any where similar rules apply.

Since US copyright terms are a convoluted mess, some of the works in question have already been public domain in the States as first published pre-1923 and some posthumously published titles will remain in term there for decades, so not everything will be put on Scribd; 777 Revised, Magick Without Tears, the commented edition of The Book of Lies and others will need to find non-US hosting.  Watch this space.

EDITED TO ADD: a slight clarification -- the UK life + 70 years term excludes certain unpublished and posthumously published works, though not, given the dates involved, the three specifically mentioned above.

EDITED AGAIN: In the case of Magick Without Tears (also Liber Aleph), the "term in country of first publication takes precedence" rule applies.  Those two works in particular were almost certainly validly renewed in the 1980s.