I just had NO IDEA there was an ETERNAL COPYRIGHT that ONLY the Queen could make changes.. or that if you were a UK citizen you had to get permission to post anything from the Bible technically. So I just wanted to share it with everybody here in case you guys didn't know about it.
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!
I just had NO IDEA there was an ETERNAL COPYRIGHT that ONLY the Queen could make changes.. or that if you were a UK citizen you had to get permission to post anything from the Bible technically. So I just wanted to share it with everybody here in case you guys didn't know about it.
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!