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Joseph Smith was compelled to defend the copyright for the E-book of Mormon earlier than it was even revealed. His protection was a authorized one, although his opponent supplied to settle the matter with hand-to-hand fight.
The main focus of Latter-day Saint weekly worship companies for Sunday Faculty and different courses in 2024 returns to the E-book of Mormon as a part of a four-year rotation of emphasis between it, the Outdated and New Testaments, and the Doctrine & Covenants/Pearl of Nice Worth.
Members will examine it collectively, individually and of their households via the “Come, Observe Me” curriculum revealed by the church.
At present, the chapter headings and footnotes and different extra data within the E-book of Mormon revealed by the church are protected by copyright, however the E-book of Mormon itself is now within the public area.
However for a number of weeks firstly of 1830, a copyright contest developed and pitted Joseph, his brother Hyrum and his scribe Oliver Cowdery towards a newspaper writer and former justice of the peace, Abner Cole, in line with a biography of Joseph written by his mom.
Joseph accomplished the interpretation of the E-book of Mormon in the summertime of 1829, and on June 11, 1829, he deposited the title web page with the clerk of the Northern District Courtroom of New York. He paid $1.20 to file for a copyright and to obtain a replica of it.
On June 26, the title web page was revealed within the Wayne Sentinel, a newspaper in Palmyra, New York. The printing of the E-book of Mormon started in August, and in October, Joseph wrote to Oliver.
“There begins to be an amazing name for our books on this nation,” he wrote. “The minds of the individuals are very a lot excited once they discover that there’s a copyright obtained and that there’s actually a e-book about to be produced.”
However Cole, who revealed his newspaper on the identical press that was printing the E-book of Mormon, started to steal a number of the textual content and print it in his publication, the Reflector.
On Jan. 2, 1830, greater than two months earlier than the E-book of Mormon was revealed, Cole revealed its complete first chapter and the primary three verses of the second chapter in his newspaper.
Hyrum and Oliver caught Cole within the act on a Sunday. The press was getting used Monday via Saturday to print the E-book of Mormon. Cole used it on Sunday to print the Reflector. Hyrum informed Cole that Joseph had obtained a copyright, however Cole mentioned he would proceed to print excerpts.
Joseph and Hyrum’s father, Joseph Smith Sr., acknowledged a disaster and traveled to Concord, Pennsylvania, to tell his son of the copyright infringement.
When Joseph returned to Palmyra and confronted Cole at Egbert B. Grandin’s print store the next Sunday, he reiterated that he had a copyright and that Cole should cease.
Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph’s mom, reported that Cole threw down his coat, rolled up his sleeves and smacked his fists collectively.
“Do you wish to combat, sir?” Cole mentioned. “Do you wish to combat?”
Joseph declined.
“There may be regulation, and you can see that out, if you don’t perceive it,” he mentioned to the educated lawyer.
Cole agreed to authorized arbitration. He did publish excerpts from the E-book of Mormon once more on Jan. 13 and Jan. 22, 1830, however the arbitrator dominated Joseph did have a copyright to the E-book of Mormon, and Cole ceased printing what belonged to Joseph below U.S. copyright regulation.
The court docket clerk later deposited the copyright within the Library of Congress, the place it appeared within the “The Worlds of Joseph Smith” exhibit in 2005 with its accompanying printer’s proof sheet of the title web page of the E-book of Mormon, “which specialists inform us is the precise first printed doc in Mormon historical past,” mentioned James Billington, the librarian of the Library of Congress.
You’ll be able to learn extra concerning the Cole copyright disaster right here, in Lucy Mack Smith’s e-book “Historical past of Joseph Smith By His Mom Lucy Mack Smith” and in “Joseph Smith: Tough Stone Rolling,” by Richard Bushman.
One other E-book of Mormon copyright disaster developed in England in 1840. You’ll be able to learn that compelling story of a race towards time right here.
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The 1829 copyright for the E-book of Mormon.
The 1829 copyright for the E-book of Mormon says:
“Northern District of New York)
“Be it remembered, that on the Eleventh day of June within the fifty third 12 months of the Independence of the US of America, A. D. 1829 Joseph Smith Junior of the mentioned District, hath deposited on this Workplace the title of a e-book the precise whereof he claims as writer within the phrases following, to wit: 1 The E-book of Mormon; an account written by the hand of Mormon upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi. …”
The remainder of the E-book of Mormon title web page is written on the copyright kind. The shape is signed by Richard R. Lansing, clerk of the United States District Courtroom for the Northern District of New York. Learn extra on the Joseph Smith Papers.
The title web page from a primary version copy of the E-book of Mormon printed in 1830.
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