On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 10/3/11 4:36 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Ryan Kaldarirkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think we are fairly safe hosting the images of the original fragments, even by Israeli law. Israel does not recognize "sweat of the brow" and requires a minimal degree of originality to claim copyright.[1][2]
Does it recognise date of first publication?
I don't know, but it seems like it would be difficult to argue that the Dead Sea Scrolls were "unpublished" until recently.
The photos of them were, though.
None of the discussions of the Qimron case seem to mention the issue of date of publication. The argument seems to have hinged almost entirely on the issue of originality.
The Qimron case is completely irrelevant with regard to the copyright of the images. It is a case about the *text*.