Rights and public-domain statement

MRM Library publishes works that are in the public domain, and works shared with the author’s permission. Every section’s Markdown frontmatter records rights.status, rights.basis and rights.source, and every page shows the same information.

The United States rule applied here (as of 2026): works published in 1930 or earlier are in the public domain (95 years). Nothing published later is included without the author’s explicit permission, and the build refuses a public-domain work whose publication year is after 1930.

For works marked public-domain, the basis is stated per work (for example, publication in the United States long enough ago that copyright has expired). The transcription of such a text is a faithful reproduction of the public-domain edition named in the work’s source; no later, separately copyrighted edition, heading, footnote or annotation is incorporated. We mark public-domain works with the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark in the page’s structured data. This is not legal advice; if you believe something here is published in error, please say so.

Works

• Mormonism Unvailed. Rights: public-domain, 1834 US publication (Painesville, Ohio); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Internet Archive record
• Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition). Rights: public-domain, 1867 US publication. Internet Archive record
• History of the Prophet Joseph by His Mother. Rights: public-domain, 1902 US publication (Salt Lake City, Improvement Era Office; text of the 1853 original as revised by George A. Smith and Elias Smith); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Source record
• The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year: Outline History of the Seventy. Rights: public-domain, 1907 US publication (Salt Lake City); compiled and edited by B. H. Roberts, copyright notice of 1907; published before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Internet Archive record
• The Seventy's Course in Theology, Second Year: Outline History of the Dispensations of the Gospel. Rights: public-domain, 1908 US publication (Salt Lake City); compiled and edited by B. H. Roberts, copyright notice of 1908; published before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Internet Archive record
• The Seventy's Course in Theology, Third Year: The Doctrine of Deity. Rights: public-domain, 1910 US publication (Salt Lake City); compiled and edited by B. H. Roberts, copyright notice of 1910; published before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Internet Archive record
• The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fourth Year: The Atonement. Rights: public-domain, 1911 US publication (Salt Lake City); compiled and edited by B. H. Roberts, copyright notice of 1911; published before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Internet Archive record
• The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year: Divine Immanence and the Holy Ghost. Rights: public-domain, 1912 US publication (Salt Lake City); compiled and edited by B. H. Roberts, copyright notice of 1912; published before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Internet Archive record