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New King James Version and  Derivative Copyright Law

According to the the Derivative Copyright Law, the New King James Version is  different enough from the King James Bible to be considered a new work or it contains a substantial amount of new material that is original and copyrightable in itself.

A typical example of a derivative work received for registration in the Copyright Office is one that is primarily a new work but incorporates some previously published material. This previously published material makes the work a derivative work under the copyright law. To be copyrightable, a derivative work must be different enough from the original to be regarded as a "new work" or must contain a substantial amount of new material. Making minor changes or additions of little substance to a preexisting work will not qualify the work as a new version for copyright purposes. The new material must be original and copyrightable in itself. (1)

Thomas Nelson Publishers had to make substantial changes to the text of the King James Bible to obtain a copyright. They accomplished this by using multi-syllabic words and more complex phrases to replace the simple words and phrasing found in the King James Bible.

 

notes: (1) Derivative Work--Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work

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