Joel, I currently have a concordance (for PalmOS) of the NIV available for download. My investigation of the copyright laws have led me to believe that a concordance is a collection of facts. A complete unabridged concordance contains no creativity in the selection of facts, so is not a copyrightable work.
My concordance program does not show the words in context, nor store word order, so can not be used to rebuild the original work (even if you had the source code & file structures). The most you could get would be a sequence of collections of words, such as "and, beginning, created, earth, God, heavens, In, the", "and, darkness, deep, earth, empty, formless, God, hovering, Now, of, over, Spirit, surface, the, was, waters". Additionally, because I restricted my concordances so much, you really need to already have a copy of the original work to make use of the concordance. Either because you've memorised so much of the scriptures from that version that you wish to search for the words you've memorised, or because you wish to look up the results in that version. Stephen. -- Datacute - Acute Information Revelation Tools http://www.datacute.co.nz/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joel Mawhorter > Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 5:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [sword-devel] Copyrights and derivative works > > > Hi everyone, > > While the topics of copyrights and derivative works are fresh on > everyone's > mind I thought I would ask a question. Does anyone know what the > U.S. laws > are regarding producing a derative work based on a copyrighted work? For > example, could I create a NIV concordence without the permission > of the IBS? > > Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Joel > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
