[sword-devel] How to secure a work on a a

[Fr Cyrille]

Thank you, Michael,
I'm fully reassured, I don't think they'll bother me, after all they're 
Christians :) But I know stories about that. Your explanations seem 
relevant to me.

Le 10/05/2024 à 09:13, Michael Johnson a écrit :
>
> Hello Fr Cyrille (& all),
>
> It looks to me like you already have a valid copyright and CC BY-SA 
> license on your Sainte Bible néo-Crampon Libre, with the copyright 
> owned by Fraternité de Tibériade. (Earlier drafts were listed as 
> copyrighted by the Crosswire Bible Society, but that is probably not a 
> problem, because the license is the same.) To copyright a work, you 
> don't actually need to do anything, even provide a copyright notice. 
> In practice, however, a copyright notice is important in the process 
> of trying to defend a copyright, so it should be done. To secure a 
> Creative Commons license, all you have to do is state clearly that the 
> work is released under whichever specific license you chose. I do that 
> automatically in all formats on eBible.org when I have the copyright 
> and permissions fields filled out in Haiola.
>
> Because of your clear copyright and permission notice, and because 
> your work is independent and was published online before theirs was 
> published, they cannot *legally* claim to own the copyright on your 
> work. Of course, they could try to make an illegal claim. Such things 
> are common, since there are not usually significant consequences in 
> the law for making false claims of copyright ownership. However, it is 
> extremely unlikely that anyone could get away with trying to enforce a 
> false claim of copyright. Besides, lawyers probably wouldn't see a 
> good way to get paid by suing someone who has taken a vow of poverty. ;-)
>
> To make sure you are covered, legally, the main thing is to keep the 
> copyright and license notice on your published works, as they are in 
> the Sword module and in the other formats distributed from eBible.org. 
> Technically, the copyright notice is not required, but it is helpful 
> and makes defending the copyright and open access license much easier.
>
> Although they have been working on it for 20 years, if it was just 
> published, then it is probably safe to say that you were not copying 
> their work, because you would not have seen it. There is independent 
> evidence of your work going on earlier at 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20220811202015/https://ebible.org/francl/.
>
> I don't see how inserting invisible characters in the text would be 
> helpful in most scenarios. It is easy enough to check for direct 
> copying by comparing the text. Even the ancient diff program can check 
> for identical texts easily enough.
>
> Does this help?
>
> On 5/8/24 03:01, Fr Cyrille wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm wondering how to secure with a CC license a work updating a bible 
>> in the public domain, without someone being able to claim that it 
>> belongs to them?
>>
>> I'm asking because I'm doing this work on the Crampon, and a French 
>> publisher has just published a revised Crampon. They've been working 
>> on it for 20 years, and I'm afraid that the day my work is ready (it 
>> is already), they'll claim it as their own?
>>
>> Do I need to do anything special to make sure no one puts it under a 
>> restrictive license?
>>
>> I've also thought of inserting invisible characters in the text at 
>> specific points, but isn't that excessive?
>>
>> Thanks for your advises.
>>
>> Br Cyrille
>>
>>
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