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Subject: Re: Grave whiffing - Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:08:47 -0500
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:08:47 -0500
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: Kenn Thomas <skthoma@umslvma.umsl.edu>
Subject: Re: Grave whiffing
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
>Contact With Space is in fact public domain. Eva said that Reich placed
Contact,
>along with several other documents, under the title "The Suppressed and Secret
>Evidence, Volumes 1-5," into the court records and they still have copy at the
>First District Federal Court of Appeals in Boston. The full set can be had for
>about $180, a little more than what it costs to buy Contact (actually Volume 3
>of the Suppressed and Secret Evidence) from the WR Museum (in the hard back
>edition).
The museum's chief interest in keeping up the illusion that Contact With
Space is still copyrighted, I would think, would be to preserve its monopoly
on what is a cash cow for them. The above situation, of course, gives people
two places to go to get a copy. Does the public status of Contact give
someone the right to scan it and make it available for free on the Internet?
Again, I don't want the OML to risk anything by doing it and bracing for the
fallout.
>I also published a court document Reich wrote called "New Laws Needed to
>Restrain Pathological Power Drunkeness." Kolleeny made no comment about that.
>There are many articles Reich wrote that are clearly in the public domain, and
>we are coming closer to 75 years past the time when Reich started writing.
>ANYTHING written or published over 75 years ago is public domain.
Unless it has been grandfathered through written application. That is, if
Reich's estate applied for copyright renewal under the terms of the old
copyright law, it might still retain the copyright for the older material.
> It started when she decided that Theodore
>Wolfe's heirs should be cut out of any royalties regarding Wolfe's
translations.
>These translations were hammered out under Reich's supervision; they argued
over
>every word, acording to Eva Reich. Subsequent translations were apparently
>farmed out to some New York translation bureau; so in some books "middle class"
>becomes "middle layer" and so on.
This is maddening. Cheaper to have a new translation hacked out than to give
Wolfe's family his due for the translation work he did--with Reich himself!
>The original German translator of Passion of Youth tells me that Higgins
asked him to translate (sic! these memoirs were written in German) from the
American edition. He refused, and asked for copies of the original.
So he translated into German from the German?
>She sent them, but he noticed that some of the handwriting was different
than Reich's, possibly his brother, Robert's. So Passion of Youth is a scramble.
If not a legal fraud. Didn't Clifford Irving go to jail over something like
this?
>Beyond Psychology is full of embarassing revelations
I kind of liked it for that reason, although it does seem overly preoccupied
with
Reich's sexual dalliances.
> How did Higgins decide what to publish, and what was left out? We might
never know.
There is some kind of legal cap on her monopoly over the archives, isn't there?
> For instance, Ewen Cameron, head of McGill University (Montreal)
CIA-funded mind control center there, wrote that Reich was a quack and that
he should be stopped. Another trout in the milk.
This IS fishy.
>Eva and her daughter, Reynate, gave me permission to republish "Red Thread of
>Conspiracy", (by Bill Moise) but obviously I'm reticent because Higgins
>threatens you with or without justification. But I've researched the
matter, and
>unless you pay someone's social security, and they sign over a specific
contract
>saying they renounce copyright, their writing is their writing. So Moise's work
>could be posted here with Eva's permission.
Even archives that hold correspondence of certain writers do not own
copyright unless it has been signed over. That's why the Harvard Medical
Library phyiscally hold's Reich's writings but has no copyright control.
Isn't "Red Thread" mostly compilation work?
kt
Kenn Thomas
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