[WikiEN-l] Re: King James version

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 13:14:41 UTC 2005


On 21/07/05, dpbsmith at verizon.net <dpbsmith at verizon.net> wrote:

> I have to believe that Project Gutenberg knows is or is not in the public
> domain, that after sixteen years the odds are that the British Crown knows
> that Project Gutenberg is doing it, and if they haven't complained there is
> probably a good reason.

AIUI, this particular copyright is not recognised under the Berne
Convention (since it's effectively "in perpetuity")... so it's become
public domain anywhere that's not under the Crown. And PG, of course,
is an American organisation :-)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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