Copyright vs. Public Domain
The KJV is public domain. The
KJV can be copied freely in its entirety. It is totally free to use either
spoken or written.
There are 3 things you should take notice of: a) any version can use any portion of the KJV b) The KJV is not in chronological order c) Chapter and verses did not come from the original text but were added.
Years ago I copyright several of my writings in book form. At that time authors had to mail a hard copy/printout to the copyright office to have it registered. It’s funny. I guess not so many independent authors were registering, copyrighting their works at the time.
For I got a call from the copyright office asking me and they asked what’s going on? I did not have an answer. Sometime after that I copyrighted some other writing. The copyright office had since developed an online copyrighting service whereby you can upload your document in digital format instead of mailing it in. That saved time for users, the copyright office, as well as there were no more storage space requirements for the hard copies/ printouts.
You can use this service for a nominal fee and you can have exclusive rights to your writings. Use this website:
Public Domain
In Copyright law, literary or creative works over
which the creator no longer has an exclusive right to restrict, or receive a
royalty for, their reproduction or use but which can be freely copied by the
public.
Public Domain
1) in copyright law, the
right of anyone to use literature, music or other previously copyrighted
materials, after the copyright period has expired. Although the copyright laws
have changed several times, a rule of thumb would be that the last possible
date for copyright protection would be 50 years after the death of the author.
Thus, the works of William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Jack London, and other
classic writers are in the public domain and may be published by anyone without
payment of a royalty. 2) All lands and waters owned by federal, state and local
governments. (See: copyright)
Copyright © 1981-2005 by Gerald
N. Hill and Kathleen T. Hill. All Right reserved.
Public Domain
noun available for use by the public, creative work
freely usable, dominion to use, free to all, freely used by the community,
invention freely usable, logo freely usable, not private, open for the
community, permitted, publicly accessible, publicly obtainable, publicly
usable, unreserved, unrestricted, within the province of the public.
Most other versions of the
Bible are protected under copyright law. Under copyright law you can reproduce,
even verbally only a portion of these Bible versions otherwise will be guilty
of violating copyright infringement laws. You have to get permission and
probably pay for using more than what is allowed free. The copyright number is
printed on one of the pages near the cover.
Also, authors copyright their
work because it is their intellectual property. They own the rights to it. Other
authors or speakers can’t use their property without citing, referring to the
source. That would be plagiarism. In other words according to copyright law
each version must be different. That is why you see so many differences between
words and meanings in the different Bible versions.
Authors and publishers are
under no obligation to accurately translate the Bible. They can take any
liberty they want to. In other words they can add to or subtract from Gods word
in the name of copyright protection and profit.
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country that
grants the creator of original work exclusive rights to its use and
distribution, usually for a limited time. The exclusive rights are not
absolute; they are limited by limitations and exceptions to copyright law,
including fair use.
Copyright is a form of intellectual
property, applicable to any expressed representation of a creative work. It is
often shared among multiple authors, each of whom holds a set of rights to use
or license the work, and who are commonly referred to as rights holders. These
rights frequently include reproduction, control over derivative works,
distribution, public performance, and "moral rights" such as
attribution.
Now commonly subsumed under
the broader category of legal regulations known as intellectual-property law,
copyright is designed primarily to protect an artist, a publisher, or another
owner against specific unauthorized uses of his work (e.g., reproducing the
work in any material form, publishing it, performing it in public, filming it,
broadcasting it, or making an adaptation of it). A copyright supplies the
holder with a limited monopoly over the created material that assures him of
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