Hello group and Happy New Year,



On the title page of the basic text of

Narcotics Anonymous there is a statement

that reads 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

reprinted for adaption by permission of

A.A. World Services, Inc.



Can someone tell me how this permission is

obtained from AA. Was this a conference action?



Where can I find this in print from AA? I have

been asked this question more than once, any

help would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks

Lester Gother

Archivist Area 44

Good morning all,



My understanding on the responsibility of the

offering of permission to reprint AA Conference

Approved literature is that the Trustees and

appointed directors who are responsible for

the organization we know as the AAWS.  The

AAWS makes the decisions, on a case by case

basis, as to the use of or reprinting of AA

Conference Approved literature.



I could be wrong, but that is what I have

deduced from the published minutes of the AAWS.

I quote from a portion of the August 2008

AAWS minutes ....



"Reprint Requests - Since the April-May 2008

General Service Conference, the A.A.W.S. Board

has granted permission/did not object to 36

requests to reprint from A.A. literature, and

denied permission (including lack of authority

to grant permission) to 28 requests."



Mark