The upper part of the movement's course structure, the Operating Thetan levels, is held confidential. Access is conditioned on having completed what comes before and on payment, and the material is not published. This atlas records that arrangement and reproduces none of the material, because the wording is not ours to publish and because stating what can be established about a text is not the same act as quoting it.
The rights are held, and they are enforced. Copyright in Hubbard's works passed after his death in 1986 through a trust and was distributed in 1993 to the Church of Spiritual Technology. Bridge Publications is the licensed publisher of the published books, bulletins and policy letters. Religious Technology Center holds the marks and controls use of the advanced material. That structure is set out in the findings of the copyright litigation of the mid 1990s, not only in the organisation's own account of itself.
Portions of the advanced material nonetheless reached a public court file. A declaration by a former member, filed in April 1993 in a case in the Central District of California, attached them as exhibits, and once they sat in a court record they circulated. The organisation litigated repeatedly over their appearance online, including against an internet service provider in Northern California in 1995.
The result is an unusual position, and it is a fact about the material rather than a claim about its content. Text that one body holds as confidential and enforces copyright in is simultaneously sitting in a public docket. A reader can therefore know that the levels exist, that they are gated by level and by payment, who owns them and how they became readable, without this entry publishing a line of them.