Copyright law seems to have been turned on its head in the Internet Age. Of course, I’m not a lawyer and am not offering legal advice, but it is important for Christian writers to be aware of some of the issues and trends related to the topic.
The question about copyrighting something in the Public Domain came to my mind when I read a copy of the Life of John Newton published by Attic Books, a division of New Leaf Publishing Group. It is one of a series of books on the lives of great Christians and this one was originally published by the American Sunday School Union in 1831. Curiously, Attic Press claims a 2011 copyright for the book. Can they copyright something already in the Public Domain?
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InterVaristyPress (IVP) has embraced e-Books in a big way. They now market 22 titles in the ePub format, 250 titles in GoogleBooks format, and over 600 titles in the Kindle format.
The King James Version (KJV) of the Bible has now been around for 400 years. A New York Times editorial observed, “It’s barely possible to overstate the significance of this Bible. Hundreds of millions have been sold. … To Christians all around the world, it is still the ancestral language of faith.”
