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Jerry wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid433704DF.7040908@cox.net" type="cite">Dickinson
Smith wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite"><note disclaimer="IANAL">...
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Likewise.
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<blockquote type="cite">If an individual or
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group had legally obtained them, they became a
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"reliance party". <br>
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I am not sure what you intended with that statement. As I understand
it, "reliance party" has to do with making and distributing new copies.
Under the right conditions a reliance party can continue to make new
copies without needing to get permission. When copyrights were restored
(in some countries the copyrights were never lost) on certain works
some parties making copies at that time became reliance parties. If you
did not become a reliance party when the copyright to a work was
restored you can not become one for that work now. There is no copy of
a work with a restored copyright that you can get and use it to become
a reliance party.
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This is my understanding also.<br>
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According to an old Bible Foundation page (no longer available, except
in the wayback machine) concerning the Bible in Basic English (BBE):<br>
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<font color="#000080">1949/1964 <strong>Bible In Basic English</strong>.
Those that intend to use the Bible In Basic English for other than
personal use should verify the </font><a
href="http://www.bf.org/copylaw.htm">copyright/PD status</a><font
color="#000080"> of BBE. The BBE was printed in 1965 by Cambridge
Press in England. Published without any copyright notice and
distributed in America, this work fell immediately into the Public
Domain in the United States according to the UCC convention of that
time. A call to Cambridge prior to placing this work in etext resulted
in an admission of this fact. However, things may have changed when the
Uruguay Round Agreements Act was signed. Due to the URAA, Some Public
Domain works had their copyrights restored on Jan. 1 1996. If BBE was
covered by the URAA then it is no longer Public Domain. But, to provide
BBE to the public, Bible Foundation was relying on the Public Domain
status of BBE before the URAA was enacted, December 8, 1994. This makes
Bible Foundation a reliance party. Under the URAA a reliance party can
continue to use the restored copyright work until a Notice of Intent to
Enforce (NIE) is filed by the holder of the copyright. Bible Foundation
is not aware of any NIE for BBE.</font><br>
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