dennis@home wrote:
>
> You can't copyright the text of the bible but you can copyright the
> format and any additions you make (like illustrations).
> That is why bibles are copyright but The Bible is not.

Assuming you have the original text in Aramaic, Greek, or even Latin, you
are correct.

A translation, however, is copyrightable. The following are copyrighted:

CEV - Contemporary English Version
ESV - English Standard Version
GW - God's Word
GNT - Good News Translation
HCSB - Holman Christian Standard Bible
ISV - International Standard Version
JBP - New Testament in Modern English
NAB - New American Bible
NASB - New American Standard Bible
NCV - New Century Version
NET - New English Translation
NIV - New International Version

and about twenty others. And these just in English.