Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Kevin W. Woodruff" <cierpke AT prodigy.net>]

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Kevin



--- Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:

> On 21/09/2005 14:51, Arne Halbakken wrote:
> 
> >>On 20/09/2005 17:45, Jim West wrote:
> >>
> >> >I received this email and pass it along as a
> matter of ethics
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> >>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
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >There are two issues at hand.
> >
> >1) The copyright of printed material is one issue.
> >
> >BDB and GKC would be in the public domain. (GKC is
> dated 1910, I believe.)
> >
> >
> >2) The digitization of the material may also be
> copyrighted.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >  
> >
> 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?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Kirk
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