Just out of curiosity, how are sites like <a href="http://bibleserver.com">bibleserver.com</a> and
<a href="http://biblegateway.com">biblegateway.com</a> able to provide access to copyrighted texts? Do
they all have agreements with the publishers? Do they get away
with not providing more than 500 verses at one time? And what,
exactly, would be the (legal) ramifications of providing a method
whereby a user could select a reference and tell a Sword front-end to
retrieve that reference from a web-page, in a manner similar to the way
in which the Mozilla Firefox extention works to allow a user to enter a
passage and it redirects the browser to bible.gospelcom or biblegateway
or whatever site? Would that be a breach of copyright laws?<br>
<br>
--Greg<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joachim Ansorg</b> <<a href="mailto:nospam+bt-devel@joachim-ansorg.de">nospam+bt-devel@joachim-ansorg.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Thilo,<br>thank you for your eMail and your suggestion.<br><br>> I've used Bibletime in past, but there are problems with<br>> copyright for common german bible translations.<br>> There for I would like to ask, if it is possible to write
<br>> a Bibletime plugin for <a href="http://www.bibleserver.com">http://www.bibleserver.com</a>?<br>><br>> This of course will require an online connection, but<br>> this way we could work around the copyright prob.
<br><br>I don't know if this would solve the problem. I'm not sure if this would be<br>even legal.<br>Anyway, we wan't to collaborate with the publishers and don't want to be<br>working against them.<br>For example, we got permission to offer the "Hoffnung für Alle" for an unlock
<br>fee. As soon as the next windows software version has been released, we can<br>work on that one again.<br><br>Let me know what you think,<br>Joachim<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>bt-devel mailing list
<br><a href="mailto:bt-devel@crosswire.org">bt-devel@crosswire.org</a><br><a href="http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/bt-devel">http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/bt-devel</a><br></blockquote></div><br>