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Out of Copyright Works

The law of copyright at present is that it survives for 70 years after the death of the author/editor. Jehovah is of course still alive!

Furthermore it is manifestly apparent that making an electronic copy of an out of copyright printed work does bring that work back into copyright for the digitizer. Copiers do not gain a copyright merely because they have copied something, however laborious that copying process may have been. Making a copy in any format of a work does not give you a copyright. Adding new content does give you copyright. That is why there is a whole industry in adding new content to out of copyright religious works. 

Mankind is blessed with a huge amount of scholarly biblical work that has been published by people who died over 70 years ago. Bible Linguistics attempts to bring some of that work into an immediately accessible form today.