Copyright Question

Randy
Randy Member Posts: 99 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

The Bibles we cite regularly, may have very specific copyright requirements. For example, the NKJV policy states, "All Scripture must be properly cited"(Thomas Nelson, 2020). Their "properly cited" format is, "Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved."

Some sources state to the effect that these formats required by the publisher "supersede" style formats like MLA, etc.

"Often a publisher, copyright holder, permission grantor(s), or license for use of an image, figure, table, scales/questionnaires etc., will specify the wording that you must use for the copyright attribution. This can also include specifying the placement of such credit within an illustration or table. This exact wording specified in the license is required and supersedes any of the wording found in style guides such as APA, MLA, etc (Guides: Copyright and Fair Use: Reference Examples for Crediting Sources, n.d.).

So it seems that even though you may use the proper style attribution built into Logos (e.g. MLA, APA, etc.), it may not meet the legal requirements of a given publisher. Anyone know about this?

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Works Cited
Guides: Copyright and Fair use: Reference examples for crediting sources. (n.d.). https://guides.library.illinoisstate.edu/c.php?g=30617&p=192032

Thomas Nelson. (2020, May 12). Permissions - Thomas Nelson. https://www.thomasnelson.com/about-us/permissions/#permissionBiblequote

Comments

  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I never knew about this. I surely have been doing it wrong for years. Then again, the contexts in which I quote scripture in writing don't get much public scrutiny, so I doubt anyone will have ever noticed or cared about it. If I were writing for journal publication or some such, then I'd want to be sure I was doing it properly.

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