at the temporal coordinates: 2/11/02 9:59 AM, the entity known as Joe
Anthenat at janthenat_at_mac.com conveyed the following:
>
> The issue was that the NIV translation that was previously available for
> use with "The Message" pkg has since been made unavailable due to
> copyright issues related to the translation itself (NIV). I was
> wondering if the copyright issues would be affected if the person owned
> a copy of an NIV translation, and the pkg for use with "The Message"
> would simply be considered a copy of that owned text...?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
Actually, I thought the issue was that Fodor (sp?) stopped offering the Newt
package containing the NIV. Don't they still offer it for the Palm? It
sounded to me more like they simply got rid of all their Newt operations
and, since the RSV and KJV are public domain, it costs them nothing to
simply leave them online, available as-is. With the NIV, though, they can't
do that, because of the copyright issue. They made a business decision that
they can't sustain the mechanics of continuing to offer it for sale when
there's admittedly only a handful of folks who might be buying it.
I'm not sure I understand why it can't be sold robotically, but anyway,
that's my understanding of the situation.
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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