This document covers the Trademark and Copyright Information for

1. the Bible.org Web Site  and the NET Bible® online tool
   
2. the NET Bible® (click on the link to jump down to the NET Bible section)

Copyright © 1996-2009 by Biblical Studies Press (BSP), L.L.C. and the authors. All rights reserved. For free and fair use statements, please read the copyright statement below.

Biblical Studies Press allows the 501c3 non-profit Biblical Studies Foundation free use of the NET Bible for its purpose of ministry and education .

1- BSF Web Site and the NET Bible® online tool Copyright Statement

                (The NET Bible copyright statement is further down the page)

The Biblical Studies Foundation operate the ministry web site http://bible.org and the NET Bible® online tool. From these sites, you may download the information and use on your computer for personal study or you can print it or use it in a multimedia presentation for yourself and others as long as you give the printed material away and do not charge for it and you must include appropriate attribution/credit on the material you extract. (see below Information to Include on copies) In this case, free means free. It cannot be bundled with anything sold, nor can you charge for shipping, handling, or anything. It cannot be posted on other websites or servers (see Electronic Access below). It is provided for personal study or for use in preparation and presentation of sermons, Sunday school classes, undergraduate or seminary religion classes or other non-commercial study. This release does not apply to other media than paper printed distribution. For software downloaded from the site,e.g. NET Bible html files or program modules, you cannot change the format of the NET Bible® data file(s) or integrate it into or bundle it with any other software e.g. display program or bible study tool without expressed permission.

For free distribution of more than 1000 copies, you must obtain written permission and comply with reasonable guidelines of content control and include currently valid BSP copyright and organizational acknowledgments. For permission, inquire by e-mail to permissions or call. 214-580-1999

As a courtesy, if you are doing over 100 please let us know as we would like to see what else we can do to support your ministry email Permissions

Credit Lines for material

After you receive permission to use the material or you determine you have permission to quote or copy the material the following credit lines are to be included with the material. The suggested format is: Author, Title of the work (if known),. Copyright year [-if not known use 2006], Biblical Studies Press; reprinted with permission from http://bible.org , [Example Bob Deffinbaugh, David Joins Saul’s Family Copyright ©1996-2006 Biblical Studies Press, reprinted with permission from http://bible.org .

Material from the site may not be edited (words added or deleted) without our permission.

Material from the site may not be reprinted for commercial publication or fund raising purposes without our permission.

Requests for Permission to Repost Studies on Other Sites

We have had numerous requests from users to repost our studies on their own webservers, discussion boards, etc. We appreciate your vote of confidence in our studies , we're pleased at all the people using it each day.

However, with all the web sites in the world being only one click away from our site, at the present time, we do not grant permission for our materials to be reposted on other web-sites. We're more than happy for you to place a link to any study from your site. ( many do this and we maintain the links so users will not get broken links) 

Would you like to search the NET Bible® and allow users to look up verses from your site?

We have made some widgets and tools for the NET Bible to be used on your site see http://labs.bible.org for a NET Bible verse reference tagger, Facebook widget, verse of the day, quote of search the NET Bible etc. Use these webmaster tools for displaying or searching the NET Bible  for example John 3:16-18 

Would you like to rebrand the NET Bible on line tool for your ministry?

We are open to discuss this email Permissions

Electronic Access to this Material

This material is available for use on the Internet via an agreement with the Biblical Studies Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit foundation at: http://bible.org .

Resources on this site (including text, audio, video and other media forms) are copyrighted materials. These resources are not shareware or public domain and may not be reposted on other websites, duplicated electronically or copied to media other than paper (eg. CD, DVD) without written permission.

Translation of articles on the site

We encourage anyone to translate any article off the site so we can offer it to others for study. Therefore permission is granted for you to translate the articles on the site provided you acknowledge the source and include the statement (used by permission author's name, http://bible.org Copyright ©1996-2006 All rights reserved ) and that you submit the translated material back to us so we can post it on the site for others to use. Formatting guidelines are found here.

NET Bible Companion CD

Many of you have received a NET Bible Companion CD  or you may have bought a copy from the store. You have permission to make copies of this CD and freely give it to your friends or fellow church members for their personal study.

2-THE NET BIBLE®, New English Translation (NET), Copyright Statement

Naming Convention:

• For verses quoted, in limited space situations the three letter abbreviation is: NET
• Alternately, the following may be used:
  • NET Bible®
  • NET (New English Translation) Please avoid: New English Translation Bible or just New English Translation
• If you quote the NET Bible in your entire work in lieu of saying NET after each scripture you may include the following acknowledgement on your acknowledgement page
  • " Scripture quoted by permission. All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are
    taken from the NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C.
    www.bible.org All rights reserved. This material is available in its entirety as a free
    download or online web use at http://netbible.org/ ."
• Within copyright statements or in discussion about the NET Bible, the following is preferred:   Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NET) are from the NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.

   The names: THE NET BIBLE®, NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATION COPYRIGHT (c) 1996 BY BIBLICAL STUDIES PRESS, L.L.C. NET Bible® IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK THE NET BIBLE® LOGO, SERVICE MARK COPYRIGHT (c) 1997 BY BIBLICAL STUDIES PRESS, L.L.C. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  SATELLITE IMAGERY COPYRIGHT (c) RØHR PRODUCTIONS LTD. AND CENTRE NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES SPATIALES PHOTOGRAPHS COPYRIGHT (c) RØHR PRODUCTIONS LTD.

The NET Bible® is not a shareware program or public domain document and may not be duplicated without permission, however:

The NET Bible® verse text and the NET Bible® notes, hereafter called NET Bible®, is available as a free download on the Internet at http://netbible.org. You may download the NET Bible® and print it for others as long as you give it away and do not charge for it and comply with our guidelines for content control and include currently valid BSP copyright and organizational acknowledgments. In this case, free means free. It cannot be bundled with anything sold, used as a gift to solicit donations, nor can you charge for shipping, handling, or anything. It is provided for personal study or for use in preparation of sermons, Sunday school classes, undergraduate or seminary religion classes or other noncommercial study. This release is also available to organizations like the Gideons, who may distribute millions of copies of the NET Bible® text without royalty. (note: if you are planning a large print run let us know as we would like to add our quantities) This release does not apply to media other than paper.

The NET Bible® verse text (no Notes) can be used by anyone and integrated into your non-commercial  project or publication upon condition of proper Biblical Studies Press copyright and organizational acknowledgments as shown in item 2a. below and a link back to http://bible.org. (for easily integrating into websites see NET api at http;//labs.bible.org). However, for the full NET Bible® verse text and NET Bible® notes, you cannot change the format of the NET Bible® data file(s) or integrate it into or bundle it with any other software e.g. display program or bible study tool without expressed permission.  For distribution of the full NET Bible® in any form other than paper, e.g. electronic, CD, DVD, you must obtain written permission and comply with our guidelines for content control and include currently valid BSP copyright and organizational acknowledgments. ( Note para 1.,1a and 2 below grants permission when quoting the NET Bible in non commercial and commercial publications. If you have questions feel free to email us as we have a streamlined email process to reply rapidly.)

 Quoting the NET BIBLE Text- You may quote the NET BIBLE® verse text in:

1. Non Commercial Publication- The NET BIBLE® verses (without the NET Bible notes) may be quoted in any form (written, visual, electronic, projection or audio(see 1a below) without written permission.This permission is contingent upon an appropriate copyright acknowledgment with a link back to http://bible.org . An appropriate copyright acknowledgment is shown in item 2a. below (for audio podcasts, streaming, etc include the acknowledgment as an audio insert) 

1a. (NEW) There has been a lot of interest in producing audio recordings of the NET Bible for local ministry user. Therefore a local ministry eg. Church is granted unlimited non-commercial rights to use the NET Bible text to make audio recordings. You can produce audio recordings of partial or complete books of the Bible (WORK) for free distribution on email and/or CD within the congregation, and as free MP3 downloads made available on the church website and the personal blogs of members of the church to be of benefit to the church at large. This permission is contingent upon an appropriate copyright acknowledgment with a link back to http://bible.org, on the distribution copy (website or CD) and you need to include an audio insert at the end of each recording in addition we require that you grant us permission to use your WORK and any promotional material that you use for the WORK.Sign and send us the NET Bible Contributor License Agreement form.

1b. For those writing sheet music using the NET Bible a copyright acknowledgement and a link to the bible.org  website should be included, and for live performances of the piece no additional permissions are needed except one would need to credit the translation should the text be displayed on a screen or program notes.

2. Commercial Publication - The NET BIBLE® verses may be quoted in any form (written, visual, electronic, projection or audio) without written permission, providing the verses quoted do not amount to a complete book of the Bible, do not comprise 50% or more of the total text of the work in which they are quoted, and the verses are not being quoted in a commentary or other biblical reference work.  If you want permission to use the Net Bible® text without limitations we require an email exchange with our permissions director so he can maintain a log of all entities that have unlimited rights to quote the NET Bible® text. He would also like to have a dialog with you to see if there are other items that bible.org might partner with you. This permission is contingent upon an appropriate copyright acknowledgment with a link back to http://bible.org. An appropriate copyright acknowledgment printed on the CD or on the text document is shown below:

Note: the permission granted above grants specific commercial activities royalty free, however, we would appreciate if you would share your commercial success with us and donate to our ministry. This permission to quote is limited to material, which is wholly manufactured in compliance with the provisions of the copyright laws of the United States of America and all applicable international conventions and treaties.

For permissions expressly not granted above inquire by e-mail permissions or write Biblical Studies Press. You can find our address here.

2a. Scripture and/or notes quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NET) are from the NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://bible.org All rights reserved.

• for audio CDs, DVDs. podcasts, streaming, etc include the acknowledgment as an audio insert as follows: The Scriptures quoted are from the NET Bible® http://netbible.org  copyright ©1996-2006 used with permission from Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://bible.org All rights reserved.
  • When the NET Bible is read or used in a sermon no royalty or prior permission is needed. We do request that if projected on the screen the abbreviation (NET) is requested.
• When quotations from the NET Bible® are used in mobile apps or  free apps, or Internet apps or not-for-sale media, such as church bulletins, orders of service, posters, Blogs, transparencies, projection or similar media. The abbreviation (NET) must be used at the end of the quotation. For software apps with internet access the term NET must be hyperlinked to http://netbible.org.  If there is room for a footnote, please append The NET Bible® is freely available http://bible.org.
• Or… Notes taken from the NET Bible® footnotes, copyright (c) 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press L.L.C. All rights reserved. Used by permission from http://bible.org
• Optional requests to publishers - As the NET Bible was primarily produced for ministry, BSP would appreciate it if you would append to the end of the above acknowledgment the following: "The NET Bible is available in its entirety as a free download or online web use at http://netbible.org/ .

(new) NET Bible Diglots- The making of bible diglots (where one has bible language XYZ and the NET Bible in parallel facing pages).

We have received several requests for permissions from bible translators who would like to make a bible diglot with their target language e.g. (XYZ) and the NET Bible. In addition several have said that our current copyright statement that gives permission only for “free” print distribution needs to be modified as it sends the wrong message that scripture is not valuable and they suggested we need a statement that allows not only for the free and below cost distribution but for cost recovery and profit to support ministry. We agree and here is a table to cover several situations. If you are unable to meet the conditions then email permissions for discussion.