Re: copyright in the dead sea scrolls? how?

Ewan J. Kirk wrote:
>

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> According to s301 and schedule 6 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents
> Act 1988, the payments of royalties for the 'perpetual copyright' of
> the play Peter Pan goes to Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, so I
> suppose they must be the owners of the right. The right lapses if the
> hospital ceases to exist or it ceases to care for sick children.
>
> The ordinary copyright in this work expired on 31 December 1987, and
> strictly speaking this 'perpetual copyright' is really a "sui generis"
> right.

In this case, why even bring up Peter Pan in connection with the dead sea scrolls copyright? Or is there, in reality, no copyright proprietor of the contents of the dead sea scrolls?

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