Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Sophistication of Dissidents Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 91 15:51:13 GMT References: <1991Jan11.023353.18154@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <3271@igloo.scum.com> <14283@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Organization: The World Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu's message of 12 Jan 91 23:57:21 GMT >Only the form in which the Bible is published is copyright protected. >The text is in the public domain. > >Bob Jacobson Unless the translation from older sources is new, in which case the translation is considered original work and the entire text is copyrightable (e.g. if someone started with the hebrew and greek versions and produced a new english translation that result could be copyrighted in its entirety.) This does happen from time to time, as a better example, most of the famous Russian novels (Anna Karenina, War and Peace) are copyrighted in their english form. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | {xylogics,uunet}!world!bzs | bzs@world.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD