[WikiEN-l] Re: Columbia and Copyright

Wed Mar 3 00:11:05 UTC 2004

Geoff Burling wrote:

>The only place that I suspect that the group behind the Columbia
>Encyclopedia could claim that we "stole" from their editorial selection
>would be concerning proper names from the Bible: in my 4th edition of this
>work, one of their boasting points is that they have an entry for *every*
>proper name in the Bible, a claim that seems to be accurate from a quick
>check.
>
Not at all.  In the summer of 2002 these were stolen from "Easton's 
Bible Dictionary" which was published in 1897, and is therfore in the 
public domain. :-)   Too bad!  Columbia's out of luck on this.

Ec