[WikiEN-l] Re: Vatican is asserting copyright

Fri Jan 27 19:18:43 UTC 2006

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Sean Barrett wrote:

> The British Crown claims to own the King James Bible.

Legally, the Crown /wrote/ the Authorised Version; having yet to die (in
the way that all un-natural persons die - that is, through dissolution
of the body corporate), and yet being a continuous natural person in who
it actually "is" at any one time, its copyright claim continues to be
valid to this day under the Berne Convention's standard elements (but is
invalidated by said Convention's limits, and by the bounds that other
countries wish to place upon themselves through international law).

Yours sincerely,
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James D. Forrester
Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
E-Mail    : james at jdforrester.org
IM (MSN)  : jamesdforrester at hotmail.com
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