GNT monoply
Lynn Trapp
rltrapp at bluebunny.com
Tue Sep 12 17:14:10 EDT 2000
Well, I think it would probably fall under the category of "derivative
works" in the copyright law. I used to study copyright law quite a bit in
connection with music publishing but don't know what, if any, changes have
been made over the past several years.
I also suspect that we are about to get "hollered" at for being way
off-topic here.
Lynn Trapp :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Narkinsky [mailto:patrick at extremehope.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:58 PM
> To: Lynn Trapp
> Cc: Biblical Greek
> Subject: Re: [b-greek] Re: GNT monoply
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Lynn Trapp wrote:
>
> > The key here is that the only thing that a person holds
> "copyright" to is
> > the "arrangement" of the words. The unique manner in which
> an author puts
> > words together is really the only thing that the courts can
> protect from
> > infringement. Thus the unique arrangement of the words of a
> Greek text are
> > clearly "copyrightable".
> >
>
> But, in creating this manuscript, the only "arrangement" was selecting
> which variant to use. There was (correct me if I'm wrong) not *one*
> original phrase. According to the US Copyright office:
>
> Works consisting entirely of information that is common property
> and containing no original authorship (for example: standard
> calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and
> rulers, and
> lists or tables taken from public documents or other common
> sources)
>
> are not eligible for copyright. Every manuscript used in NA
> and UBS4 were
> "public documents". All the "authors" did, in this case, was collate
> them. I would certainly admit that most of the ancilliary material is
> copyrightable. But I can't see how the document itself is.
>
> Patrick
>
> --
> Patrick Narkinsky
> patrick at extremehope.org
>
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> Christ. My Hosanna is
> born of a furnace of doubt." -- Fyodor Dostoevski
>
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