The website www.vajrayana.faithweb.com is back up, at least for now…

It had been removed because freeservers felt it violated copyright.

It is my understanding that as long as the scholarly articles and doctoral dissertations are not used for commercial purposes and are archived strictly for private study, scholarship, or research, that the site is not in violation of US copyright law.

JSTOR and UMI/ProQuest as well as the Library of Congress all make millions of copyrighted texts available (despite not owning the copyright) under this legal exception and all three *charge money* for their service.

Surely, as the site charges no fees and makes available a much smaller number of texts (on a very limited field of study) it must enjoy the same legal protections.

I have been contacted by a number of noted scholars in the field of Indo-Tibetan studies who have all expressed the merit and value of the site. It is a useful service to a very small but still significant portion of the academic and scholarly community.

I will gladly work with the staff of freesevers.com to make sure the site meets their standards. Hopefully there is a way for us to continue this service.
I don’t know for certain if this will be possible, so if you need to make use of the site please do so in the very near future.

Warm Regards
Ryan