The “em-dashes” (—) come up a lot in online translations of books like Bible and Quran.
Normal keyboard “-” and “–” are different from “—” but microsoft office auto-formats “–” to that.
I kinda assumed it was ALL microsoft word data that caused training to include that.
I am only now realizing AI stole from even the religious texts and influenced by them as well.
As far as I’m aware, religious texts are all public domain. While I hate AI, they should have free access to public domain just like anyone else.
It’s the trying to sell it back to us that I have a problem with.
I mean, public domain allows for that though, that’s kind of half the point. Penguin Classics literally only resells public domain works, but it’s a printed copy and their printing costs deserve to be covered. Steamboat Willie can be used for commercial works now and I want to see people rub it in the mouse’s face while making a buck.
Fair point.
And also, in my understanding religions are supposed to help the general populace live a more fullfilled life and get to a better end result. So in this case it should be fair to put forth eminent domain (or whatever the text equivalent would be) for both the original texts and the translations.
While you’re largely right, it is worth noting that each translation is a distinct work under copyright law, and any translation made after 1929 may be still protected.
And that ignores really young religions, and the copyright status of high-authority extant religions such as Iranian Islam, Mormon and Roman Catholic Christianity, Ron Hubbard’s Scientology or state-atheist communism.
(Whether or not Hubbard, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao count as “religious leaders” is a distinction without a difference in discussion of the copyright status of their works.)
Not all are, it’s just many translations are old enough to be public domain. But some things like the English Standard Version of The Bible isn’t public domain, vs the Geneva Bible which is