[b-greek] Re: GNT monoply

From: Lynn Trapp (rltrapp@bluebunny.com)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 16:44:54 EDT


Patrick,
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".

Lynn Trapp :-)

> But is Nestle-Aland really copyrightable? Is the text
> (written over 1900
> years ago) under copyright? It seems questionable to me,
> since there is
> presumably *no* original content in the words of the text
> itself. This
> really skates the edge ... I suppose it could be argued that
> NA created
> an original work by arranging the text -- however, it seems
> to me that the
> work of the textual critic could be argued to be too
> mechanistic for that
> to qualify as artistic creation.
>
> Patrick
>

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