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Q: I am the Assistant Dean of Truth & Mercy Institute for Advanced Ministry Studies in Yermo, CA. We are a small Bible

college that is tuition and fee free. Can we used free downloadable PDF copies of copyright books for our Bible courses without violating copyright laws?

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Peter D. Mlynek
Peter D. Mlynek
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  • Intellectual Property Lawyer
  • Moorestown, NJ

A: I don’t think that this will be possible. You could copy older versions of the Bible (e.g., KJV, RV, ASV), but I suspect that your students already have those. Copying a concordance indexed to one of these Bibles may possibly be OK as well, but not anything more.

Your choices are either to license the books or write your own material.

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