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  • From: Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] re- copyright laws
  • Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:39:37 -0600

I'm surprised to hear that BDB and Gesenius might still be under copyright.
I
suppose the copyright on Gesenius may have been renewed by somebody, but
looking at the shelves of my local Christian bookstore, it would appear that
most anybody with a scanner and a truckload of paper can print BDB...

On Wednesday 14 September 2005 09:13, Jim West wrote:
> Kevin Woodruff is kind enough to email and let me know that some of the
> works that I mentioned a bit ago are under copyright protection. I asked
> him if copyright extended to the United Kingdom, where the sites
> previously mentioned were hosted. He replied that The Berne Convention
> protects copyright internationally. As a result, I have removed the
> links to those sites and also from Biblical Studies Resources. Though
> things are available online, if they are illegally so, I would be loathe
> to imagine that I had somehow participated in that illegality.

--
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Maybe I'll trade it for a new hat."




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