On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
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*.
If WMF wants to copy *the text* of the scrolls, I don't think anyone is going to have a problem with that. The copyright notice claims copyright "in the digital images of the manuscripts", not in the text.