Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00104)

BCW have been taken off-line by Hartog.  Here's what his note says, and some info on the publishing of BCW follows:
   
   
  The HPB Collected Writings website has been 
  removed from this site due to Quest not 
  allowing this
  For more informsation please contact me, see 
  Ton den Hartog
  Ton den Hartog
  ... can in no way be interpreted as authorizing 
  you to place the Collected Writings on line. In 
  fact the entire set is in print and is 
  advertised both in our Catalogue and on the 
  Quest Books website. Your act is clearly in 
  violation of our copyrights and as a 
  consequence the Collected Writings must be 
  removed from your website immediately. I await 
  confirmation that this action has been taken. 
  Thanks, 
  David H. Bland, Ed. D. 
Business Manager, Quest Books 
   
   
  SOME INFO ON BCW:
   
  ......up to Vol. IV, de Zirkoff originally had them published by "Blavatsky Writings Publications Fund," Los Angeles, California.  My Vol. VI of 1954, has "Copyright 1954 by Boris de Zirkoff."  It is identical to the TPH Collected Writings, who obviously took the project over and used the same plates.  They include this "Copyright by Boris de Zirkoff" Vol. I through Vol VI even in the current "second edition" published by TPH.  The copyright notice further reads: 
   
   "Copyright in this volume includes the Preface, Chronological Survey, Bibliographies, Editorial Comments, Notes, Summaries and Footnotes signed by the Compiler, the arrangement of individual articles and English translation of original French material."
   
         I guess he didn't feel he had the right to include the articles he collected in the copyright, as they were HP Blavatsky's and all now at least 115 years old!  Nobody can have the copyright on them.  They are in the public domain.  (In the US, everything published before 1923 is in the public domain.  Other countries are more liberal.) Boris had no children, and no heirs, so his material should be in public domain also.  Boris's BCW really is the most valuable Theosophical Literature, beyond the SD, Isis, and MLs, and other HPB books.
   
   
                   - jake j.

 
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