Re: copyright in the dead sea scrolls? how?

We keep returning to this point, but I think that Amalyah may have the best information.

Me, I find it hard to distinguish between "the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls" (to which Amalyah writes that "of course no one has copyright") and the scholar's "proposed transliteration/ transcription/restoration of the text." If performed successfully, the transliteration/transcription/restoration reproduces the original contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls exactly, aside from using a more modern version of the Hebrew alphabet.

Or, Amalyah, by "the contents" do you mean only so much as is plainly legible? For example, are you saying that if a scroll said...

          In the beg ... created the ... Earth

then the restorer could copyright "ginning God ... Heavens and the"?

                                                 Mark L. Levinson
                                                 mark[_at_]sd.co.il