By Stephen McIntyre Above a photocopier on the Brigham Young University campus hangs a sign that asks: “Are You COPYRIGHTEOUS?”1 followed by a passage from the Doctrine & Covenants: “Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of …
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The Literary Concerns of My Church: Copyright and Control in Mormonism–Part II
Continued from Part I COPYRIGHT IN MODERN MORMONISM As in the past, the Church continues to take its intellectual property rights seriously. In 1997, the Church incorporated Intellectual Reserve, Inc. (“IRI”), a nonprofit corporation that holds the Church’s intellectual property and preemptively registers copyrights for everything from lesson manuals to sewing instructions for temple clothing. …