On 30 Jan 2003 at 11:44, Patrick Narkinsky sent forth the message: > 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.)
I wrote: > > even if you have bought the text for one software program that gives > > you no rights at all to use it on any others ok, saying 'no rights' was excessive But I did also say: > > P.S. If you can export the texts from these programs you can also > > (depending on 'fair use' and copyright laws where you are) export > > the text out of "Translator's workplace"/"Paratext" and create a > > sword module for personal use only that should not be redistributed. > > We have tools that will create a sword module from a plain text file > > in a certain format. You can legally (in at least some countries, maybe all) transform the content yourself. ;) Daniel _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
