[B-Greek] copyright issues...
James Ernest
jdelists at earthlink.net
Thu May 22 09:02:58 EDT 2003
In my slightly educated opinion, it should be very difficult indeed to claim
copyright protection for a bare list of Greek words such as JF has offered.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Forsyth" <james at bigbeing.com.au>
To: "b-greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 5:10 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] copyright issues...
> 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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