[sword-devel] Re: taking up a collection

[Ross Purdy]

Hi Chris,

The CD ROM I ordered for the advertised price from Sergej nine months ago
and did not recieve looks exactly like what ProQuest/Chadwyk-Healey offers,
same versions et al! He won't communicate to indict or clear himself so I
can't pass judgment. Maybe he is paying someone to just type in verse
numbers and remove the Chadwyk-Healey headers and footers, maybe not.

I sent him almost $200.00 for Wycliffe and Tyndale NT which I thought he was
making available freely after that. It seems he is charging everyone the
full amount for copies of the files.

If these files are in txt format with Chadwyk-Healey's name and formating
removed, is that an ethical violation or just a legal violation?

My files are downloads of the Chadwyk-Healey files but I did not enter in to
any agreement with them. A student who had access did so from a computer off
campus that was not his. After having done that, anyone can now access the
Bibles from that computer. If I download those Bibles and remove all
formating and modify them with verse numbers and fill in missing letters and
check them and correct them against scanned images from solascriptura's
offerings, am I guilty of wrong doing?

Sincerely,
Ross Purdy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Little" <chrislit@crosswire.org>
To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Re: taking up a collection


>
>
> Ross Purdy wrote:
>
> >>I'd be interested in these, if you have the opportunity to send them and
> >>if they come from a source that isn't claiming licensing restrictions or
> >>an (illegal) copyright (i.e. not Chadwyk-Healey).
> >
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Where do you think Sergej is getting them from?
>
> In the past, he had been paying to have they typed in by hand.  If he's
> just stealing them from Chadwyck-Healey, it's not clear to me what he
> even needed money for.
>
> > In any case, these Bibles can not be copyrighted, can they?
>
> The Bibles cannot, however additional markup in them could be
> copyrighted.  In any case, access to Chadwyck-Healey's databases is
> regulated by a licensing agreement, so export & re-distribution would be
> a violation of that agreement.
>
> --Chris
>
>
>
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