TIL that in the UK, it is a crime to make new copies of the King James Bible. Although the text is technically in the public domain, the Crown claims Royal prerogative over the right to print, publish and distribute it. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by al666in t3_zg6oto on December 8, 2022 at 6:17 PM in todayilearned 50 comments 305
Thanatos030 t1_izgox2u wrote on December 8, 2022 at 11:44 PM Fun fact: the same is (was) true for Hitler's "Mein Kampf", where publishing rights of it were inherited to the German state Bavaria, until it fell into public domain in 2016, 70 years after the author's death. Permalink 1
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