Forwarded message from Larry. He has a very untraditional way of
quoting and responding to email, so see the bottom text beginning with
'*' for his response. Anyone know what he's talking about? He still
won't be specific. I've never heard of Larry Nelson or Sulu Kelly. Any
modules that I
At 04:15 PM 1/5/2003 -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
...I've never heard of Larry Nelson or Sulu Kelly. ...
Larry Nelson did the Jewish Bible (JPS 1917).
Sulu Kelly did something with John Wesley's notes.
Both of these guys seem to think they get a copyright for being first to
put these PD wor
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jerry Hastings wrote:
> At 04:15 PM 1/5/2003 -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> >...I've never heard of Larry Nelson or Sulu Kelly. ...
>
> Larry Nelson did the Jewish Bible (JPS 1917).
On the issue of Larry Nelson--good guy. He did a bunch of modules for
OLB, like the JPS 1
Just a few things to keep in mind while this is being debated (and I
don't wish to imply that nobody has been keeping these things in mind):
1. Copyright and patent infringement does not constitute thievery. If
it did, we wouldn't need copyright and patent laws.
2. Intellectual property is not
On Sunday 05 January 2003 10:44 pm, Chris Little wrote:
> 2) BDB/Thayer (he calls them something else I think; these are probably
> from Larry--BibleWorks asserts as such, though the webpage where these
> came from probably said they were PD; his additions apparently include the
> TWOT/TDNT/KJV cou
At 12:06 AM 1/6/2003 -0500, David's Mailing List and Spam Receiver wrote:
...
The hebrew dictionay has this note at the bottom,
"The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon is Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon;
this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." These
files are considere
> Both of these guys seem to think they get a copyright for being first to
> put these PD works into electronic form.
I'm not sure, but I believe this works like translations of pd works. The
_translation_ is copyrightable. Of course, you have to include the
copyright notice in your work.
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Keith Ralston wrote:
> > Both of these guys seem to think they get a copyright for being first to
> > put these PD works into electronic form.
>
> I'm not sure, but I believe this works like translations of pd works. The
> _translation_ is copyrightable. Of course, you have
Thus spake "Keith Ralston"> :
>> Both of these guys seem to think they get a copyright for being first to
>> put these PD works into electronic form.
>
> I'm not sure, but I believe this works like translations of pd works. The
> _translation_ is copyrightable. Of course, you have to include th
is taken to ridiculous lows: for example, sheet music has the type-setting
copyrighted!
Which is perfectly understandable, since typesetting classical music
can involve research to find out the most probable original form of
the music. It probably could not be copyrighted if you just take an
off
It's pretty clear that minor alterations to scanned material do
not constitute a derivative work and do not transfer ownership of
the text away from the public to the scanner.
Further, if someone believes they have created a new work of
authorship, shouldn't they at least change the name of the te
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