In every Bible you will find a copyright statement, one normally includes this on the 'verso' page of a book - the one which cites ISBN, asserts any copyright of the author and acknowledges copyright obtained.

For most Bible's there is a standard statement which grants permission without specific request, with the proviso that the number of words copied and/or the quoted words as a percentage of the whole is less than a prescribed % - usually 25% or 1,000 words.

In UK normally copyright of the author extends to 70 years following the death of the author unless the copyright expressly passes to another on death.

All publishers protect their Bibles against copyright infringement just open any of yours and look at the verso page. Thus on the basis that the original 1611 was paid for by the then king it was perfectly within his right to protect. Additionally by copyrighting it would have protected against anyone changing the translation at will, so the king and his translators/advisors would have seen this as an important way of preserving and protecting 'the Word'.

As an interesting titbit - one printing of the KJV had to be recalled and pulped - it was called the 'wicked Bible' missing the word 'not' in the 7th Commandment!

Don't confuse The Monarch with The Crown, One is a living person while the other is a Corporation, The Monarch is CEO of The Crown Corporation and receives a salary via a mechanism known as The Civil List, each year.

The Crown Corporation is HQ-ed in The City of London, The Square Mile which is a Sovereign State, in the heart of the UK, which is not subject to UK laws.

Crown Copyright is a method of taking a skim, another method of taxation.