Is the Bible trademarked or patterned?

Question

Or can Bible simply be reffering to any spiritual book?

Answer 1

date of copyright: Day 7

Answer 2

The King James Version, or the Authorized Version is not patented or trademarked in the US. It is in the public domain, so anyone can quote any part or all of it for free. This is why there are so many King James version bibles floating around. They are cheap to make because you don't have to pay royalties when you quote it. ( in the UK, this is not true, because it was initially commissioned by the King of England, King James, hence the name)
The more modern versions, like the NIV, The New Living Translation, NASB, NEB, The Message, etc.
ARE copyrighted, and you can only quote limited passages at a time without seeking permission from the publishers. If you want to quote longer passages, they likely will seek some compensation.
Did you ever wonder why they keep publishing new versions of the Bible? hmmm...

Answer 3

The bible text is made up of many writtings, and stories handed down over the century's, and of course can not possibly have a Trademark, or Patant. The books that are PRINTED about the biblical stories can have Trademarks, or Patants, but not the content.

Answer 4

The King James version is considered common property of all people due to how old the translation is. It was made before the use of copyrights. Other translations do however have copy right that could be enforced but most will not do so since they are happy that people are reading the word of God. So if you are righting a paper you can use KJV without looking up an extensive bib while others would require you to write out the bib like any other resource.

Answer 5

Actually, there are many Bibles. The most famous is the christian bible (referred to specifically as "The Bible") but any completely thorough treatment of a subject can accurately be referred to as a bible. For example, the book "The Backstage Handbook" by Paul Carter is comonly referred to as the "Backstage Bible" by theatre folk.

Other religious texts can be referred to as bibles, but they already have their own specific names (Torah, Quran, etc.) and people who follow those religions may be a little offended.

Literally, the word bible means "a collection of books", like an encyclopedia set.

Answer 6

The word "Bible" comes from the koine greek word "Biblos" meaning "The Book." It has come to be known today as the Christian Holy book, old and New Testament. If you went into ancient Greece, you would no doubt hear the word many times a day. Most people regard the word Bible now as referring to the Christian doctrine. You could, in theory, use it to refer to any book since the word simply means "book", but I think you would confuse a lot of folks.

Answer 7

The word "Bible" means book, the first book of humanity, the word of God. No other book, regardless of what it may contain, may be accurately be called "Bible" although some have already done that. There is the Real State Bible, The Travel Bible,a others.
Mr. M on Bible pattent

Answer 8

You mean patented, not patterned. There are different versions of the Bible, all patented by either Gideons or the Order of St. James etc.

Answer 9

The Bible is the Christian Holy Book. I think it only implies to the Christian faith because the Muslims have thier Quran and Jews have the Torah.

Answer 10

The word "Bible" is in the public domain. Some combinations, like "The PC users' Bible"
may not be public domain.

The KJV text is public domain.

The NIV is not public domain, but fair use provisions would allow most quotations.

Answer 11

the word bible is not trademarked or copyrighted as far as i know.

what can be copyrighted is one presentation of material, ot the source facts.