What does the verdict mean?
by Robert Perry On October 24, 2003, the copyright on A Course in Miracles® was dismissed. On that day, a verdict was issued in the copyright case between Endeavor Academy and FACIM (the Foundation for A Course in Miracles) and FIP (the Foundation for Inner Peace). Judge Robert W. Sweet of the Southern District Court of New York found that the Course was distributed prior to publication and, as a result, its copyright is invalid. What does this mean? Does it mean that anyone can quote from, or even publish, A Course in Miracles? For now, it means nothing; it’s business as usual for everyone, including the Circle. Most observers believe that FACIM will appeal, and if they do, the judge will most likely stay the order until the appeal is resolved. The first step is for the draft of the Order of Entry of Judgment to be completed by Endeavor and then signed by the judge (it is not clear how long this might take, but I have the impression it will be done shortly). From the time that order i
Kazinski, your response to me was a long unsupported assertion and I believe legally wrong. I would like to know the source of the legal authority providing for unlimited detention of anyone without rights of even receiving a trial. Also, I’m intrigued by the casual assumption that all these people are guilty. Padilla was, but that doesn’t mean everyone was. We’ve released many found not to be guilty, which was evident from the data in the Seton Hall Report, but only after years of holding them at Gitmo. I wonder: Does anyone feel at all bad about the fact we detained innocent people for years without trial?
