THE BIBLE
UNUSUAL ACTION.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, December 23
The unusual question as to whether any other than three drills in England have the right to publish the Authorised Version of tile Bible is expected shortly to occupy tile attention of the High Court. Among many interests involved are those ol the Crown, the owner of the copyright, and of various religious bodies. Printers in England who have the right to issue the Authorised \ ersiou are-the Cambridge University Press the Oxford University Press and Eyre and .Spottiswood. who are tin' King’s printers. Recently, Eyre and Spottiswood objected to a Bible issued by another firm of London printers and requested that the firm should stop publication, recall copies in circulation ami break up the type. The company concerned maintained that the Bible that it has been publishing for the past fifteen years was in nowise an infringemeiit of copyright. Thus "a complicated question will almost certainly read; the courts for solution.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1930, Page 5
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