Talk:Bible in Basic English

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concerning copyright

The "look inside" feature on amazon.com where this bible is being sold since 2016, $1 Bible in Basic English (BBE): (Revised 1965) (CrossReach Bible Collection Book 13) Kindle Edition by S. H. Hooke (Author), CrossReach Publications (Editor) https://smile.amazon.com/Bible-Basic-English-BBE-CrossReach-ebook/dp/B01LY6DOKH/ Publisher: CrossReach Publications (September 14, 2016) Publication Date: September 14, 2016 Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC

states:

"The BBE was printed in 1965 by Cambridge Press in England. Published without any copyright notice and distributed in America, this work fell immediately and irretrievably into the public domain in the United States according to the UCC convention of that time. A call to Cambridge prior to placing this work in etext resulted in an admission of this fact."

anecdote

Samuel Hooke was my great grandmother's second husband. He was deeply annoyed that the words he was allowed included aeroplane, but he was denied camel.Nickpheas (talk) 12:41, 20 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

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