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Re: Copyrighted Bibles.

From:David Starner <dvdeug@...>
Date:Thursday, June 12, 2003, 20:41
> Even if this weren't true, making a noncommercial translation of > anything surely falls under "fair use".
No. Fair use isn't that broad. A translation of a Bable-text sized chunk of anything, except possibly a short poem, is probably fair use, but even if it's noncommercial, translating and distributing a whole work is usually not going to be covered by fair use. (IANAL, of course.) ______________________________________________________________________ Do you want a free e-mail for life ? Get it at http://www.email.ro/