Does the Crown own the KJV?

The British Crown actually owns the copyright to the King James Bible, which has been renewed upon the accession of each succeeding monarch since King James himself. So the queen, through the auspices of Cambridge University Press, was sending him a bill, according to BBC Music Magazine.

Is the KJV in the public domain?

Finally, this Note concludes that the printed KJV Bible is not sufficiently original from the public domain version, but that the NKJV Bible is sufficiently original. The NKJV Bible likely has a “thin” copyright ascribed to it, however, and will only be protected against verbatim copying.

Is there copyright on the Bible?

Thus, religious works are copyrighted in the same manner as any other type of work. Since most of the world’s major religions have been practiced for over a thousand years, their original scriptures are in public domain. This includes scriptures such as the Torah, the Bible, the Quran, and the Bhagavad Gita.

Who owns the copyright on the King James Bible?

It was much later in the colonial period, in 1782, when the first complete King James Bible was printed in America. Prior to that time, English Bibles were readily available as imports from England and the English Crown owned the “copyright” on the printing of the King James Version.

When was the first King James Bible published?

Late in the 18th century, other printers began publishing the complete King James Bible. Isaac Collins printed his Bible in 1791; the Collins Bible became known as the first “Family Bible” printed in America. Isaiah Thomas published the first illustrated King James Bible in 1791.

How old is the King James Bible?

When many (most??) people think of “the Bible,” I bet they think of the King James version. Depending on how you look at it, it was written either between 3500 (or so) and 1900 (or so) years ago, or 400 years ago (when King James I of England ordered it put together).

Did the pilgrims use the King James Bible?

The Pilgrims arrived in 1620 and brought with them the Geneva Bible, not the King James Bible. The KJV was seen as the Bible of the English King and the state Church of England which had been persecuting them. But by the mid-1600s, the King James Bible was arriving in the New World with the increasing flow of settlers.