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by is_this_valid2 1154 days ago
History of Copyright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version :

> In January 1604, King James convened the Hampton Court Conference, where a new English version was conceived in response to the problems of the earlier translations perceived by the Puritans,[7] a faction of [...]

> The translation was done by 6 panels of translators (47 men in all, most of whom were leading biblical scholars in England) who had the work divided up between them: the Old Testament was entrusted to three panels, the New Testament to two, and the Apocrypha to one.[10] In common with most other translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from Greek, the Old Testament from Hebrew and Aramaic, and the Apocrypha from Greek and Latin.

And they translated Hebrew "Kaneh Bosm" as "Calamus", a sweet cane that's not an active ingredient; and then copyrighted their work of men.