Source Info on "A Course in Miracles" - HLC A693944 Original text downloaded from: http://a-course-in-miracles.net/ On April 6, 2004, Judge Sweet of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the first published version of the book A Course in Miracles (now referred to as "the Criswell Edition") was, in 1975, placed into the public domain. Judgment to this effect was entered on April 27, 2004. As a result, the registered copyright protecting that version of the work (No. A693944) was rendered void.