On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Tim Schofield <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 10/08/2010, Mike Barnard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Reinier Battenberg > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > but you are totally free to make your own translations, because the > > gospels > > > are copyright free. > > > > > > > > > > Yeah... it just depends on your reference text while making translations. > If > > you use the earlier texts that were not copyrighted, then you are in the > > clear. You cannot use the NIV, NKJV, MKJV, Amplified and the like for > > translations... they are fully copyrighted. > > > > err, yes you can. See my quote from the license agreement for the NIV. > > To show how much you are really trying to prove yourself right, I'll put what you said here: "The NIV text may be quoted in any form (written, visual, electronic or audio), up to and inclusive of five hundred (500) verses without express written permission of the publisher, providing the verses do not amount to a complete book of the Bible" And as I said, as per your statement, If i translated the whole bible to Swahili using the NIV as my text of reference, I would have surely gone beyond the permitted 500 words. I would put in my bible, adapted from the NIV, year of publication WXYZ and so on and would have infringed on the (C) of the NIV bible. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------
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