<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Tom, PD is 'public domain'. Public Domain (PD) refers materials that are not or no longer protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark etc.<div><br></div><div>To confuse, different jurisdictions have different criteria for materials to enter into the Public Domain. For example see the section labelled 'Crown Copyright, Letters Patent and the KJV here:</div><div><a href="https://wiki.crosswire.org/CrossWire_KJV">https://wiki.crosswire.org/CrossWire_KJV</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 10:54 AM Tom Sullivan <<a href="mailto:info@beforgiven.info">info@beforgiven.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Peter:<br>
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Thanks for your reply. Please excuse my ignorance: What is a "PD <br>
document"? Thanks.<br>
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On 09/10/2018 10:41 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:<br>
> On Mon, 2018-09-10 at 09:54 -0400, Tom Sullivan wrote:<br>
>> First, take Matthew Henry's or Calvin's commentaries. They are way<br>
>> out<br>
>> of copyright to say the least. Now some publishers may add OCR text,<br>
>> comments, footnotes, etc. These are copyrightable. Am I correct in<br>
>> thinking that the original text itself could be safely made into a<br>
>> module? Surely I am, for these modules are out there. Or am I<br>
>> missing<br>
>> something?<br>
> <br>
> Yes, the original text can be made a module, any later edition not,<br>
> unless it without addition or editing simply copies an older public<br>
> domain edition.<br>
> <br>
> With this in mind we will e.g. publish critical editions of the NT from<br>
> Westcott Hort, but not the newest Aland.<br>
> <br>
>> Secondly, there are those who publish images of old works and<br>
>> manuscripts. They claim copyright to the images in some cases. At<br>
>> the<br>
>> same time, if one does not publish the image, but only the bare<br>
>> original<br>
>> text, which is not copyrightable, that should be OK for a module. Am<br>
>> I<br>
>> correct? I should note that I have seen many cases of republished<br>
>> old<br>
>> works that have a copyright label, but it seems to me that they<br>
>> copyright can only apply to the modern additions.<br>
> <br>
> While pictures are copyrightable, I presume using the pictures to<br>
> transcribe the bare text would make a PD document. Our WLC is something<br>
> of that kind. Someone somewhere put fingers on keyboard and typed the<br>
> bare text in.<br>
> <br>
>> Thirdly, [..]<br>
>> In other words, even if a module maker has a<br>
>> legal<br>
>> right, it may not be worth the risk in the view of the Sword<br>
>> community.<br>
>> Am I correct in my impression that this is a factor?<br>
> <br>
> Yes, this is a risk and yes this risk makes us double cautious. In<br>
> general Bible publishers are kind folk and do not like to sue, but of<br>
> course they could. FWIW the last time I had to pull a text due to<br>
> erroneous publication as public domain I was uploading within days a<br>
> new module with footnotes, crossreferences and the like, significantly<br>
> improved upon the prior one which was text only. The Bible society in<br>
> question had coupled their request to pull the old module with an offer<br>
> of an improved text. But we still do not want to risk this.<br>
> <br>
> Peter<br>
> <br>
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