Bible Copyrights

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Not sure what area to post this under so I hope this is the right place.

As I understand it the Bible is not technically copyrighted but the translations are. It’d like to be able to post daily readings on a website but can’t find a translation that would allow me to. I checked the USCCB website and they specifically prohibit the posting of daily readings from the NAB on any website. Are there any Catholic translations that are not copyrighted? I suppose if an old enough translation is used the copyright would be expired. If so, what would be a good Catholic Bible to use?

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the bishops do not allow anyone to post the daily readings so that they can protect the wording from being changed, shortened etc. A Catholic site can post a link to the USCCB daily readings, as catholicexchange.com does, for instance, so why would you need to post them yourself?
 
Mt19_26 said:
Not sure what area to post this under so I hope this is the right place.

As I understand it the Bible is not technically copyrighted but the translations are. It’d like to be able to post daily readings on a website but can’t find a translation that would allow me to. I checked the USCCB website and they specifically prohibit the posting of daily readings from the NAB on any website. Are there any Catholic translations that are not copyrighted? I suppose if an old enough translation is used the copyright would be expired. If so, what would be a good Catholic Bible to use?

Thanks…
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Oh, boy, here we go: why would you want to post from the NAB - when you can post from the vastly superior Douay-Rheims, which IS in the public domain? :confused:
 
puzzleannie said:
the bishops do not allow anyone to post the daily readings so that they can protect the wording from being changed, shortened etc.
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Their policy doesn’t have to be so draconian to prevent that. The sites they have cracked down on and have complied are Catholic apologetics sites – exactly the people they should want getting the NAB out there. Anyone else they will still have to take to court for copyright infringement.
A Catholic site can post a link to the USCCB daily readings, as catholicexchange.com does, for instance, so why would you need to post them yourself?
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As a convenience to his site visitors? Does it matter? The Bishops’ policy is still foolish and short-sighted.

OTOH, the RSV-CE has a much more generous permissions policy than the USCCB so OP can post the daily readings using that.
 
Manfred said:
Oh, boy, here we go: why would you want to post from the NAB - when you can post from the vastly superior Douay-Rheims, which IS in the public domain? :confused:
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Perhaps because the daily readings at Mass are taken from the NAB

I would check the different Catholic sites that have daily readings, and see if any of them offer a direct link that would show up on your web page.
 
You can always put a link on your site to the other site’s daily reading. That is what I do with my site; basically, I wrote a little PHP script to read the links automatically and have them display on my site. Users will be redirected to the other site when clicking on the links.
 
didymus said:
OTOH, the RSV-CE has a much more generous permissions policy than the USCCB so OP can post the daily readings using that.
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The RSV-CE is NOT available online; several of us have looked long and hard and were disppointed.
 
Manfred said:
The RSV-CE is NOT available online; several of us have looked long and hard and were disppointed.
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I was referring to their permissions policy, they will let you quote fiarly large chunks w/o asking for use on blogs, websites, &c.

Also, you can get the daily readings from Yahoo! or Google groups and they use the RSV-CE.

If you want to post the RSV-CE onyour site you’ll probably have to buy it on CD-ROM.
 
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