Are there any copyright free/public domain translations of the bible?

Question

For a personal design project i want to break the bible up into its individual books and do layout and cover designs for each book. If it's at all possible i would like to share my work on a self publishing web site...

This would obviously mean i couldn't be infringing upon copyright. I understand there's no copyright on the original scripture but i'm led to believe translations ARE copyrighted. Does anyone know of an English translation without copyright restrictions?

Answer 1

go to Crosswalk dot com

Answer 2

In most of the world the Authorized Version of the King James translation has passed out of copyright and is freely reproduced. This is not the case in the United Kingdom where the rights to the Authorized Version are held by the British Crown under perpetual Crown copyright.  

Answer 3

Generally speaking, any text more than 100 years old is no longer under copyright - and I believe that is international standard.  Thus, everything from Kipling to Verne to the American Standard Version, the Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision, the Revised Version, the Geneva Bible, etc. etc. are all now public domain.  Of these ancient versions, I would say that the Revised Version (sometimes known as the English Revised Version) is probably the best that is now public domain.

Here's the "abridged" version in parallel with the abridged King James Version

http://books.google.com/books?id=bWghXjD...

Here is the ERV Apocrypha available in a program (but not the ERV - ?)

http://www.online-bible.com/winonlinebib...

This might be useful - though, again, it uses only abridged versions

http://www.lookhigher.net/

Unfortunately, I just couldn't find a complete (1895) ERV online.

Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/