On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, John H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
And then again which true one; for weren't there two different printers involved and each made slight errors in their first print runs. > > 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 > Regards, Trevor <>< Re: deemed! _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
