I was into a rabbit hole questioning me about God’s existence, debating myself and looking for different opinions of different people, when, sadly, I found that the bible is copyrighted.

You can find the licenses nearly at the bottom. https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/es/Hebreos 11%3A6

It’s was sad, because it make me stop questioning me about the existence of god, everything started because I said to me “if god exists, then faith is useless, we need the inexistence of god to have faith”, but that, makes me feel less faith

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    58·
    2 days ago

    A particular Bible translation made in something like the last hundred years might be copyrighted. Outside of that, it’s public domain.

    It’s also possible for a newer translation to be put into the public domain by the translator.

    • DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      Is there anything to prevent me from calling something a translation of the bible, but really it’s just the story of how I think my dog sees me mixed with the plot of fight club?

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        15·
        2 days ago

        No. Well, not in the US. Some country somewhere probably has blasphemy law. Not unless you get really confusingly-similar to some trademarked Bible translation, enough that there was risk of confusion. And that’d be trademark law, not copyright.

        EDIT: Well, okay. Maybe truth-in-advertising law. Like, if you actively misled buyers to the point that they thought that they were getting something totally different.

      • m4xie@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        If you’re selling it for money and it’s not clear how inaccurate of a translation it is, that could be fraud.