![]() provided that the verses quoted do not account for more than 20 percent of the work in which they are quoted, and provided that a complete book of the Bible is not quoted". For example, in the front of my Hohlman Bible it says that you can copy "up to and inclusive of 250 verses. If you stay within these limits, you should be 100% safe. Many Bible publishers have policies about what they consider "fair use" that they will not challenge. ![]() New King James (Jimmy 2) was published in 1982. ![]() For example the New International Version was published in 1978, so the copyright on that is good until 2073. More recent translations still have copyright protection. ![]() If you want to quote the King James Version, that was published in 1611, so the copyright on that ran out 400 years ago. So if you want to quote the original Hebrew text of Genesis, the copyright on that ran out about 1300 years ago. Under the "fair use doctrine", you can quote short excerpts from copyrighted works without getting permission. Copyright is for a finite amount of time, basically life of the author plus 70 years, or if the copyright is owned by an organization rather than a person, or if the author is anonymous, for 95 years from date of publication.Ī translation has a separate copyright from the original work, with the clock starting from when the translation was published, not the original work.
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