The legal stuff page

Reproducing extracts from copyright works (including e.g. song lyrics, other people's videos or recorded talks, etc) - 'fair dealing'

In the UK fair dealing is a statutory exception found in s.30, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and would cover inclusion of insubstantial amounts of a copyright work for the purpose of review or criticism, provided the copyright holder is acknowledged.

Bible versions used on this site

Where Bible verses are reproduced on this site, the text used varies between three sources - a public domain modern language version of the American Standard Version, the 1911 American Standard Version itself (public domain), and the King James Version (public domain).

This is because using the more common modern language versions runs into copyright problems. I'd rather use more mainstream modern translations than the ones I've used, but there are intellectual property issues involved in using these.

Fair dealing as above is available as a defence to the use of modern copyright versions, but the copyright holders all publish details of what they do, and do not, consider to be fair dealing, or fair use. For example, Zondervan, the owners of the NIV translation, state that reproducing quotations from the NIV on a website is subject to the restrictions of maximum 500 verses, comprising no more than 25% of the total content, and also that the quotations must be completely removed after 30 days. The 30 day restriction renders reproducing verses from the NIV on this site impractical.

There are quite a few links from this site to modern translations of verses on http://www.biblegateway.com - inclusion of these links is no problem as the verses are being hosted by biblegateway.com.

For the verses reproduced on this site, I'd encourage you to go and read them (and the rest of the Bible!) for yourself in several modern translations - NIV, ESV, NKJV, etc.