Setting the record straight

[Christina]

BTW, Lamsa's 1933 publication copyright expired last year. It is now public domain. One can find his files for his translation on the internet for the entire Bible and download them free of charge.

Huh? Can you cite your sources for this?

The info I found is that the copyright on Lamsa's 1933 publication was renewed, which means the copyright has not yet expired:

With generous permission from the Aramaic Bible Society - August 2005. Please do not copy these documents as they are still under copyright...

Hopefully Lamsa's translation will be released into the public domain soon, like the Younan, Murdock and Etheridge translations.

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Copyright Status of Recent Bible Translatiosn

This page is a record of the Bible translations published between the years of 1923 and 1964. These years are known as the transitional period in U.S.A. copyright law. Everything published before 1923 in the United States is in the public domain, everything published after 1963 with a proper copyright notice will be locked into a copyrighted status for several more decades.

Any book published in the United States between 1922 and 1964, that was not renewed in a timely manner has lapsed into the public domain. This page is a record of my copyright research regarding Bibles published during this time period. It should not be regarded as legal advice.

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Copyright Not Renewed
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Copyright Renewed...

1957. George M. Lamsa, The Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts. Containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the Peshitta, the authorized Bible of the Church of the East. Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Co., 1957. The New Testament was published in 1940. Based on the Syriac Peshitta version.

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Lamsa - Holy Bible From Ancient Eastern Manuscripts
Scripture quotations marked Lamsa are from the Holy Bible From Ancient Eastern Manuscripts, George M. Lamsa, Copyright ?? 1933, 1939, 1940, 1957 A. J. Holman Company.

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