The current teaching manuals of any coven, circle, or temple ? unless they are using their own personal home-grown Book of Shadows ? have to be purchased from a publisher, who printed them for the original authors. While this is ?standard procedure? for the dissemination of materials such as these in our society, it has produced an ?unintended consequence? of many of our faith practices and rituals ending up subject to copyright regulations which potentially cause them to only be able to be shared under certain narrow conditions. And as nominal ?