You are right that the original KJV is not in use anymore. A side note to this is the obvious effect it has on the KJV only debate, as no one really uses the KJV anymore(the true one).
On Jan 22, 2008 11:51 AM, DM Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot answer for the French Darby Bible translation. I can shed > some light on the KJV. It may be parallel. > > I worked on the latest cleanup of CrossWire's KJV module. In the > process I discovered many things about the KJV that came as a surprise > to me. > > The KJV has been the subject of numerous revisions, many of them > silently undertaken by publishers. There is no such thing as the > definitive KJV in print today. If you were to compare the current crop > of KJV bibles available today for purchase, word-for-word, you would > find very few differences. But you would find differences. For > example, if you compared the "Scofield KJV Bible" with the "Old > Scofield KJV Bible", which supposedly differ only in the notes, you > would find several dozen textual differences. > > If a publisher changes a work which is out of copyright, they can > copyright their changes. That work is a derivative work. As a > practice, they do not identify their changes. And in the case of the > KJV I have not seen a publisher own up to changing the text. But I see > copyright statements on a good number of KJV Bibles. One might assume > that the text is not copyrighted but that the notes, comments, > introductory material is what is claimed as copyrighted. Having read > the copyright statements in dozens of KJV Bibles currently in print, I > did not see such a distinction. Only a flat claim that the book was > copyrighted. > > Some have claimed, and I have no information or opinion as to whether > it is true, that publishers make textual changes so as to identify > their work. > > The only perfect way to validate an e-text as being out-of-copyright > is to compare it word for word, feature for feature, .... to a hard > copy actually printed long enough ago. > > I'm not sure that sheds any light on your question. > > In His Service, > DM > > > > On Jan 22, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Kostandin Dardan wrote: > > > Friends, > > > > I've been a bit confused lately ... How can the French Darby Bible > > Translation not be in the Public Domain? It was published first in > > the 1800's--he also translated into German and English, those > > translations are already online ... > > > > -Kostandin > > _______________________________________________ > > sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] > > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
