[sword-devel] John Gill

[Brandon Staggs]

For something to be copyrighten it needs to be a creative work. Somehow he
believes that having volunteers type it in, then correcting errors, and
don't forget: changing roman numberals to digits is a creative work.

It would never hold up in a court of law. He has done this simply to
discourage other people for 'benefiting' from volunteer work (as if the
Online Bible is free or something -- last time I looked the price of the CD
was $60 and climbing!).

He has a history of placing copyrights on volunteer work. That's why many of
his volunteers no longer submit there work to him - no names mentioned, but
I know a few.

-Brandon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pergamum" <pergamum@ev1.net>
To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] John Gill


> Sorry to but into this guys, but.... "copyrighted because 'he typed it
in.'"
> So let me get this straight? If I type up "Footprints", the Declaration of
> Independence, the Magna Carta, and the King James version, I can slap a
> copyright on it???  My goodness, I'll be richer than Avarice!!!!
> Yeah right... This guy needs to really review his ethics, and his law. But
> that's just my opinion, I *could* be wrong.
>
> In Christ Jesus,
> Pergamum
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Troy A. Griffitts <scribe@crosswire.org>
> To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
> Sent: Sunday, 02 July, 2000 15:30
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] John Gill
>
>
> > Larry had his copyright displayed prominently in the text and we had not
> > had any definitive statements as to the legality of his claims.  The
> > module would be on our site enciphered if we had encipher support
> > working for lexicon / dictionary modules.  The code is there, it just
> > doesn't work ;)  It actually should have no trouble deciphering the
> > text, but my cheezy cipher utility doesn't seem to work correctly with
> > anything other than Biblical texts.  I would love to get word on the
> > status of this text and post it publicly if we can.
> >
> > -Troy.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Chris Little wrote:
> > >
> > > You are correct it seems.  But there used to be a Gill file up there.
> Did
> > > Larry Pierce ask us to take it down (you know, on account of the fact
> that
> > > he owns copyright on this 240 year old work because he and other
> volunteers
> > > typed it in)?
> > >
> > > --Chris Little
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org
> > > [mailto:owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Todd K. Pedlar
> > > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 6:38 PM
> > > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> > > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] John Gill
> > >
> > > If Gill's Expositor is a SWORD module, where is it available from?
> > > I can't find it anywhere on the CrossWire site...
> > >
> > > Todd
> >
>