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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Consider the fact (that I cannot back up atm) that 30% of all proverbs or idiomatic expressions come either from the king james bible or shakespeare. Then imagine you could never talk about "taking a pound of flesh" anymore.
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The King James bible is still in copyright in the UK - it has a perpetual "crown copyright". The fact that a work is copyrighted does not prevent one from quoting from it; that's covered by "fair use".