TAN Books

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TAN Books
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Parent company Saint Benedict Press
Founded1967
Publication typesBooks, Booklets, Prayer cards
Nonfiction topicsCatholicism
Imprints Confraternity of the Precious Blood
Neumann Press
American Chesterton Society
Official website www.tanbooks.com

TAN Books is a traditionalist Catholic American book distributor and publisher.

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History

TAN Books was founded in 1967 as TAN Books and Publishers in Rockford, Illinois, by Thomas Aquinas Nelson (not to be confused with the founder of the Bible-publishing firm Thomas Nelson) to keep in print books teaching traditionalist Catholicism in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. [1]

TAN was subsequently acquired by Saint Benedict Press in 2008. [2]

Baronius Press, Ltd. v. Saint Benedict Press, LLC (2016–2019)

On September 29, 2016, Baronius Press, a British publisher of traditional Catholic books, filed a civil lawsuit against TAN Books and Saint Benedict Press. [3] The lawsuit alleged that TAN had violated Baronius's ownership of the copyright for the English translation of Ludwig Ott's Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (Grundriß der katholischen Dogmatik in the original German). Baronius Press purchased the exclusive rights to the English translation from the original copyright holders in 2009, and obtained an exclusive license with the underlying owner of the German original in 2011. The English translation of Fundamentals had been in the public domain in the United States since its initial publication in 1954, as U.S. copyright law did not provide automatic copyright protection to works initially published in foreign countries (the English translation of Fundamentals was originally published in Ireland). [4]

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References

  1. "About TAN". Archived from the original on December 6, 1998.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "Saint Benedict Press Acquires Tan Books and Publishers | Mergr M&A Deal Summary". mergr.com. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
  3. Baronius Press, Ltd. v. Saint Benedict Press, LLC(District Court, WD North CarolinaSeptember 29, 2016), Text .
  4. Hirtle, Peter B. (2008). "Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status". D-Lib Magazine. 14 (7/8). doi: 10.1045/july2008-hirtle . hdl: 1813/10884 .
  5. TAN Books. "TAN Books Acquires Neumann Press" (Press release). Retrieved July 3, 2016.