Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 21/09/2005 14:51, Arne Halbakken wrote:

> > On 20/09/2005 17:45, Jim West wrote:
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> > >I received this email and pass it along as a matter of ethics
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> > Thanks for the clarification. I note that this does not apply to BDB and
> > probably Gesenius (GKC) because these works are out of copyright.
> > --
> > Peter Kirk
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> There are two issues at hand.
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> 1) The copyright of printed material is one issue.
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> BDB and GKC would be in the public domain. (GKC is dated 1910, I believe.)
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> 2) The digitization of the material may also be copyrighted.
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> In other words, one ought not take digitized material from a Bible 
> software company, Perseus, TLG, etc., if the digitization is 
> copyrighted but the material is in public domain.
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True. Do you have any evidence that this is what Biblecentre has done? 
These works are not from Perseus or TLG. They may be from a source like 
Logos, but is there any evidence for this?


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