Matthew Donadio wrote:
Joel Mawhorter wrote:This does not clear up the copyright law, but since everyone these days thinks they can do anything they want by making licenses that go with their work, what the copyright law says does not really matter.
While the topics of copyrights and derivative works are fresh on everyone'sI'm not sure if this clears things up, but if you read the NIV copyright
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?
page, they specificially state that commentaries and reference works
based on the NIV for commercial purposes require written premission from
the publisher.
So yes, the concordance would have been legal under straight copyright law, but since the NIV people made a magic clause, and since presumably, you must follow their license to be using/reading their work (never mind that they forced the contract on you *after* your purchase of their work, or even that you may have received a free copy of the NIV from elsewhere, and you never signed any contract), then you must receive written permission from them. That's way our literarily un-free society works these days :S
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