Should the Bible be Copyrighted?

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Our Position
"Hey! What's this about copyright? It's my Bible, isn't it?" The answer to that small question is 'NO!' - you (or the person who gave you your Bible) only purchased a license to use the particular version you have unless your Bible is a King James Version. ... All copyrighted Bibles, (you can know at a glance because of the legal mark © always used) whether on paper or via the Internet, contain a legal notice in the first pages similar to the following: 'All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means - electronic, mechanical, photo-copy, recording, or otherwise - without the prior permission of the copyright owners.' " -The Gadsden Times
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The Open Bible Foundation is a community of volunteers dedicated to promoting, maintaining and making available a high quality, modern Christian bible that is readable and freely shareable in the public domain.

'The Open Bible Project' is the first of four projects planned for The Open Bible Foundation.

The project is gathering like-minded people to develop a high-quality, perpetually maintained, public domain version of The Holy Bible text using open-source software programming ideologies and methodologies.

We're building a volunteer team of people interested in working on a modern, "word-for-thought" (dynamic equivalence) paraphrase of the high-quality public domain text, The American Standard Version Bible, published 1901.

Not a scholar or theologian? No worries, we need you!

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