[sword-devel] Fwd: AW: Sword Project

[Patrick Narkinsky]

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On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 06:45  AM, Daniel Glassey wrote:

> Unfortunately (as far as I understand it) the way that software and
> bible translations works is that even if you have bought the text for
> one software program that gives you no rights at all to use it on any
> others. At the moment we have no rights at all to distribute these
> texts so they remain locked.

That's probably debatable. In the Betamax case, the supremes ruled that 
fair use did include "time shifting". More recently, a judge ruled 
based on that case that MP3 players were legal -- that the user had the 
right to transfer his music from one medium to another. This seems to 
me to be a very similar issue, and I would certainly consider that I 
had the right to transform my content from one Bible program to another 
(even if I might NOT have the right, based on owning an NRSV, to use 
another program's NRSV module. As we saw with the whole online Bible 
mess, sometimes Bible modules are not what they are described as.)

Patrick


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On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 06:45  AM, Daniel Glassey wrote:


<excerpt><fixed>Unfortunately (as far as I understand it) the way that
software and 

bible translations works is that even if you have bought the text for 

one software program that gives you no rights at all to use it on any 

others. At the moment we have no rights at all to distribute these 

texts so they remain locked.

</fixed></excerpt>

That's probably debatable. In the Betamax case, the supremes ruled
that fair use did include "time shifting". More recently, a judge
ruled based on that case that MP3 players were legal -- that the user
had the right to transfer his music from one medium to another. This
seems to me to be a very similar issue, and I would certainly consider
that I had the right to transform my content from one Bible program to
another (even if I might NOT have the right, based on owning an NRSV,
to use another program's NRSV module. As we saw with the whole online
Bible mess, sometimes Bible modules are not what they are described
as.)


Patrick



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