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==Litigation ==

==Litigation ==

Due to a suit by Penguin Books and FIP, brought against the Church of the Full Endeavor for their limited independent publication of selected portions of ''The Course,'' it was found that the contents of the FIP first edition, published from 1976 through 1992, as well as the contents of all earlier draft copies, are public domain. The evidence in this case turned on the discovery of an early recorded statement by Judith Skutch Whitson that, "(Prior to 1976) we printed hundreds of copies of (the Criswell edition of ACIM on a Xerox machine). (The Urtext draft of the Course is now available online.  See below.)  However, those parts of the FIP second edition which were added in the second hard-bound edition remain under copyright.  Items still under copyright include the verse numbering system and the Clarification of Terms section.  Also, as a result of the earlier litigation, later in 2005, the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] canceled both the Servicemark on "A Course in Miracles" and the Trademark on the acronym, "ACIM"., http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/04-03256.PDF, U.S. District Court Southern District Of New York, Judgment, Case: Civil 4126 (RWS) ruling (#04-03256) final judgment

Due to a suit by Penguin Books and FIP, brought against the Church of the Full Endeavor for their limited independent publication of selected portions of ''The Course,'' it was found that the contents of the FIP first edition, published from 1976 through 1992, as well as the contents of all earlier draft copies, are public domain. The evidence in this case turned on the discovery of an early recorded statement by Judith Skutch Whitson that, "(Prior to 1976) we printed hundreds of copies of (the Criswell edition of ACIM on a Xerox machine). (The Urtext draft of the Course is now available online.  See below.)  However, those parts of the FIP second edition which were added in the second hard-bound edition remain under copyright.  Items still under copyright include the verse numbering system and the Clarification of Terms section.  Also, as a result of the earlier litigation, later in 2005, the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] canceled both the Servicemark on "A Course in Miracles" and the Trademark on the acronym, "ACIM"., [http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/04-03256.PDF], U.S. District Court Southern District Of New York, Judgment, Case: Civil 4126 (RWS) ruling (#04-03256) final judgment.

== Terminology ==

== Terminology ==