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Originally Posted by HarryT
The point being made is that if you believe that the Bible is written by "God", and that "God" is not dead, then no matter how old it is, it's still under copyright in all countries with a "life+x years" copyright term.
It would be in the public domain in the USA, which has a very strange copyright system.
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Ah, but the Bible was written long before copyright existed, and thus would have entered the public domain many centuries ago. And even after copyright existed, for a long time, copyright was a fixed period with a possible extension, the Life+X years came much later.