This is neat. This makes me curious about the licencing around popular translations, like the Jerusalem Bible or the NIV; is it not legal to post those translations??
Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow."
Acts 5:29 says: "Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!""
The US copyright act (chapter 3 section 302) states: "Copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978, subsists from its creation and, except as provided by the following subsections, endures for a term consisting of the life of the author and 70 years after the author’s death."
<confused face emoji>
Copyright is different from patents in this way: I can own a patent on an extension of an invention that you hold a patent on. I can't own the copyright to a derived work of a work you own the copyright to. In fact, you automatically own the copyright of the derived work that I produced (e.g. Fanfiction)
But now, O Lord, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.
And no, it was not censoring it (thanks to all of you who replied below pointing this out!). The issue was my incorrect editing of the URL without accounting for the fact that the URL contained URL-encoded characters, namely + as %20.
This isn’t just an issue for the bible; if you want the uncensored version of Samuel Pepys’ diary, for instance, you have to pay for it; it needs translation from shorthand, and the 19th century translations are censored.