On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jerry Hastings wrote: > At 04:15 PM 1/5/2003 -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > >...I've never heard of Larry Nelson or Sulu Kelly. ... > > Larry Nelson did the Jewish Bible (JPS 1917).
On the issue of Larry Nelson--good guy. He did a bunch of modules for OLB, like the JPS 1917, Roderham, LXXE (Brenton), Lamsa, etc. We took all of his works straight from OLB (except LXXE & Lamsa). We also got permission from him. Larry Pierce has nothing to do with this and can stuff it. I have email correspondence with him somewhere (but am not going to dig it up). > Sulu Kelly did something with John Wesley's notes. > > Both of these guys seem to think they get a copyright for being first to > put these PD works into electronic form. Of course, this is also right, for which reason I mostly cared about getting Larry Nelson's permission because he is a nice guy doing good work and I think he deserves thanks and appreciation. Most people think they get copyright for putting PD works into electronic form and many commercial products (e.g. BibleWorks, possibly Logos?) pay them lip service and give them royalties. I think that kind of feeds the problem rather than solving it. For the record: the only thinks Larry Pierce could reasonably have a claim on are: 1) KJV+strongs (he created it, but it's not really a creative work thus not genuinely copyrightable) 2) BDB/Thayer (he calls them something else I think; these are probably from Larry--BibleWorks asserts as such, though the webpage where these came from probably said they were PD; his additions apparently include the TWOT/TDNT/KJV counts and we will happily remove them) 3) "TVM" (this is a part of his BDB/Thayer correlates that was removed before we got text files--I assume he really created this, but it's just an enumerated list of tense/voice/mood combinations so it's not creative/copyrightable; it is similar to the Robinson & Packard modules that I made--but had no delusions of being able to claim a copyright on) 4) numerous other modules that may have his _creative_ editing to modify their doctrine (we would LOVE to fix these) Nothing ever came from any OLB CDs that I know of. He does post everything I know of on their websites. --Chris
