On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 06:45 AM, Daniel Glassey wrote:
Unfortunately (as far as I understand it) the way that software and
bible translations works is that even if you have bought the text for
one software program that gives you no rights at all to use it on any
others. At the moment we have no rights at all to distribute these
texts so they remain locked.
That's probably debatable. In the Betamax case, the supremes ruled that fair use did include "time shifting". More recently, a judge ruled based on that case that MP3 players were legal -- that the user had the right to transfer his music from one medium to another. This seems to me to be a very similar issue, and I would certainly consider that I had the right to transform my content from one Bible program to another (even if I might NOT have the right, based on owning an NRSV, to use another program's NRSV module. As we saw with the whole online Bible mess, sometimes Bible modules are not what they are described as.)
Patrick
