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Quite. And if you'll excuse the pedantry, the KJV is patented, under a “letters patent” issued by The King.

I point this out because these days the term patent almost always implies an invention. It's an interesting counterexample.

At least arguably the Crown paid for that translation.

> Not sure if God sees any of the royalties

God didn't write it - it was written by a committee of 47 scholars overseen by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the behest of King James the first, so the Church of England/UK State should get royalties. Although presumably most of the plot was copied from previous authors.