A Copy write question

[1ke]

Thanks,

Are you suggesting that I can’t use the bible either?

I use the Douay and the RSV

God Bless and thanks

RSV is copyright protected. You need permission.

 

[Joe_5859]

Hi PJM

No. Helping people and doing good work is to be admired.

Copyright is a can of worms. Pretty scary stuff. You have done and are doing nothing wrong.

It seems to me at times that copyright scrupulosity is running amuck. Are Catholics not allowed “Fair Use”? Sometimes I wonder.

Something to look forward to:
A [Future] News Flash: The “Catholic Church” will be issuing a cease and desist notice to a “Catholic” member of “Catholic Answers Forums” for using a brief quote (with link) from the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” and a brief quote (with link) from “Catholic Versions of the Bible” to prevent any emailing of a “Catholic Faith Lesson” that promotes “Catholicism”.

Congratulations. I wish I could get one of those notices also.

Recommending due diligence is not “copyright scrupulosity.”

We’re not talking about a paragraph here and a paragraph there. The OP says he is in week 51 of his study of the CCC. I took this to mean that he is making a study that is working its way through a pretty substantial portion of the Catechism, if not the whole thing. That is much different. If he winds up basically copying and pasting the entire text of the Catechism throughout his weekly studies, that would not be okay to do without permission.

 

[_thaddeus]

Recommending due diligence is not “copyright scrupulosity.”

We’re not talking about a paragraph here and a paragraph there. The OP says he is in week 51 of his study of the CCC. I took this to mean that he is making a study that is working its way through a pretty substantial portion of the Catechism, if not the whole thing. That is much different. If he winds up basically copying and pasting the entire text of the Catechism throughout his weekly studies, that would not be okay to do without permission.

Sorry Joe 5859

The readers are given the direct link to the individual article and therefore the entire Catechism.

If you goto any of these websites you can download any or all parts of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

scborromeo.org/ccc.htm
vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm
usccb.org/catechism/text/

You don’t have to wait 55 years to be copying and pasting the entire text (1-2855 parts) of the Catechism from PJM’s weekly Catholic Faith Lesson.

Fair Use is Fair Use.

PS. Don’t tell anyone, especially people with a slow internet connection, that you can mirror a site or part of a site to your home computer, ads and all.

 

[TxGodfollower]

The Douay–Rheims translation is old enough that it is public domain. The RSV is still under copyright and you could have legal issues in copying it.

Thanks,

Are you suggesting that I can’t use the bible either?

I use the Douay and the RSV

God Bless and thanks

Many modern Bible translations are copyrighted, and thus place restrictions on the extent to which you can quote or reprint passages from them.

Fortunately they don’t enforce it - Yet.

Gods word is now owned by human beings with conditions - pretty crazy

It depends on the translation if it is copyrighted are not. The KJV is “technically” still copyrighted by the British Crown; though in the US it is treated (improperly, I believe) as public domain. The KJV copyright was originally an eternal copyright, but they decided to give up the right in 2020 or something like that I think.

Typically, copyright expires sometime after the author/translator (or last survivor for a group) passes away plus like 40 years.

But just because a translation is new doesn’t mean it is copyrighted. I know of at least 1 translation that was immediately handed over to public domain.

As for the OP, my guess, and its just a guess I am not an attorney, is what you are doing DOES infringe on the copyright, but they probably won’t do anything about it. Still, for a clean conscience, I’d start linking to it.

 

[edwest2]

Many modern Bible translations are copyrighted, and thus place restrictions on the extent to which you can quote or reprint passages from them.

Fortunately they don’t enforce it - Yet.

Gods word is now owned by human beings with conditions - pretty crazy

Not crazy at all. As someone who works in the publishing business, taking a Bible produced by my company needs a right to copy or copyright. Otherwise, anyone could copy it and sell it as their own.

Peace,
Ed