> What does surprise me is the "apparent" attitude of the bible societies > towards this project. At least from the (very) short time I have been > following the issues surrounding this. It seems that certain copyright > modules are locked but more to the point that there is no way to purchase the > keys for these locked modules?? That there is this great distrust between > the bible societies and sword. To put it bluntly I am astonished that the > bible societies want to put a stumbling block towards the spreading of the > gospel. Does anyone know how long active lobbying of the bible societies has > been happening? And why it seems that so few of them have been willing to > alter thier positiion???
I find it absolutely ABHORRENT that they view their perceived loss of revenues greater than following the great commission. However, I suppose most of the publishers are not run by people actual centering themselves on Christ. I think what is amazing is that American copyright system allows them to obtain copyright on material that is based upon work that they do NOT even own. Can you imagine how ape say a musician (bono) or a cartoon company (disney) would go if their original works were allowed to be interpreted and released under new copyright? Oh yeah thats right they just would change the law to extend copyright so we wouldnt have a chance to see what they would do. ;) I still would like to know more about the law in this area. Whereby they are taking a work (original texts) that are CLEARLY in the public domain and translating them. I could see if they were claiming they were modifying in some way that was 'artful' or changing the content, but my understanding would be if they were changing the meaning, then in effect who would want to read their version.... -- Derek Neighbors GNU Enterprise http://www.gnuenterprise.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=dneighbo
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