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Maurice Robinson wrote:
[Pretty good overview of copyright law snipped]
>                                                           Anything less
>than free and unhindered access by major holding institutions would
>reflect a practice almost as scandalous as the current Dead Sea Scrolls
>situation, being a hindrance to free inquiry and the scholarly endeavor.
>(I seriously question whether a "real" copyright can or should exist on
>any ancient MS data in the first place, since under all copyright laws,
>the "original" publication was hundreds of years ago, and such should by
>all rights now be in the public domain).

Does anybody know the status of the Qimron v. Shanks lawsuit?  The last I've
heard is that Qimron prevailed in the District Court of Jerusalem, enjoining
Hershel Shanks from publishing the Dead Sea Scrolls anywhere in the world.

Stephen Carlson
-- 
Stephen C. Carlson, George Mason University School of Law, Patent Track, 4LE
scarlso1@osf1.gmu.edu              : Poetry speaks of aspirations, and songs
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