Do you need any kind of permission to quote from the Bible in an article or essay that's going to be published?
2007-06-21 10:22:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The bible is free game. You may quote from any part. Just list your source.
2007-06-21 10:25:59 · answer #1 · answered by the TreeHouse Guru 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on which version you are using. Check the cover pages to see if a copyright applies to the one you're looking at.
Note for Pax-C:
Constantine was not the author of The Bible. More like a compiler and editor among many compilers and editors. There were a multitude of authors who contributed to the stuff in it and there are a lot of chapters (books) that didn't make it in the BIG BOOK, yet are part of it.
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2007-06-21 19:09:42 · answer #2 · answered by orbitaldata 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is was, since copyrights run out 70 years after the author's death, it would long since have gone into public domain. The Emperor Constantine - author of the Bible died quite a while ago. Pax - C
I am a Gnostic Christian by the way.
2007-06-21 17:34:46 · answer #3 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible per se is not copyrighted, the translations are. Still, as long as it is only a verse or two, and you footnote the version, up should be OK.
2007-06-21 18:59:11 · answer #4 · answered by WolverLini 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 1611 edition which is the original King James Version is not but I'm pretty sure the others are.
2007-06-21 19:49:54 · answer #5 · answered by Can music save your mortal soul? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i haven't a clue!!! i am guessing there will be some form of rights ties with it but when you write your "to be published work" just say that you are quoting from the bible so they know you are acknowledging there rights.
2007-06-21 17:29:30 · answer #6 · answered by XXX AMY XXX 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bible has no trademark rights, and is not owned by any sort of entity, because any judge would hold that it belongs to a large group of people, a religious group, no matter who prints it. This is hard to explain to your local bookseller when you want a free copy.
I'm an atheist, by the way.
2007-06-21 17:32:56 · answer #7 · answered by imnottellingmyname 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Some versions are copyrighted, I think. It would be better to site which version you are using, to be sure.
2007-06-21 18:19:14 · answer #8 · answered by tkron31 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋