[B-Greek] copyright issues...

James Forsyth james at bigbeing.com.au
Thu May 22 05:10:57 EDT 2003


Hi Jonathan and others,

It hadn't occurred to me that this objection would be brought up.  I'm no 
expert in copyright law, however, all I had in mind was that any 
distribution of the spreadsheet would be for private study purposes, as is 
a lot of the photocopying that goes on.  Granted, "self study" can mean a 
lot of different things when it comes to the internet.  Furthermore, Vis-Ed 
doesn't produce a spreadsheet of Greek words, it produces a card set.  If 
anything, I hope this sudden attention on Vis-Ed generates more sales for 
them (go on, you know you want a Vis-Ed card set, they're available at 
http://www.vis-ed.com for only $12.95 American Dollars, plus postage).  If 
I thought people were going to take the spreadsheet and create themselves a 
whole new card set (albeit with plenty of flicking through the lexicon, as 
only the Greek words are provided) then I wouldn't have made the offer.

If picking through a card set and typing each word into a computer is your 
idea of reckless infringement of copyright then we have differing opinions 
regarding the reckless infringement of copyright.

The inclusion of the following URL is not intended to upset you in any way: 
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/95psa.html

James Forsyth

At 09:03 AM 21/05/03 -0400, you wrote:
>At 09:08 PM 5/21/2003 +1000, James Forsyth wrote:
>>If you'd like to put something together yourself, I have put all the 
>>words of the Vis-Ed card set onto a spreadsheet, which would get you 
>>started.  The Vis-Ed card set is a good, 1000-word beginning in NT-Greek vocab.
>
>But I assume the Vis-Ed card set is copyrighted, no?
>
>Jonathan




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