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On scrolls, artefacts and intellectual property / edited by Timothy H. Lim, Hector L. MacQueen, Calum M. Carmichael.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 38.
- Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 38
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dead Sea scrolls.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew.
- Copyright--Cases.
- Copyright.
- Copyright--Manuscripts.
- Copyright--Moral rights.
- Intellectual property (International law).
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in Palestine, recovered in Jordan, and largely edited by an international Christian team who prevented public access to unpublished manuscripts. Subsquently, the state of Israel, which had already purchased many of the Scrolls, has assumed responsibility for all of them. Most recently, one scroll editor has claimed copyright on his reconstruction, instigating a lawsuit and introducing serious implications for future Scrolls scholarship. This volume looks at international copyright and property rights as they affect archaeologists, editors and curators, but focuses on the issue of 'authorship' of the Scrolls, both published and unpublished, and the contributors include legal experts as well as many of the major figures in recent controversies, such as Hershel Shanks, John Strugnell, Geza Vermes and Emanuel Tov.
- Contents:
- Opening remarks to the Symposium on Intellectual Property and Cultural Artefacts / Rt Hon. Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
- Pt. 1. The case of 4QMMT. The judgment / Dalia Dorner ; Intellectual property law and the scholar : cases I have known / Hershel Shanks
- Pt. 2. Principles of intellectual property and copyright laws. The application of American copyright law to the Dead Sea scrolls controversy / Cindy Alberts Carson ; Copyright law and the Dead Sea scrolls : a British perspective / Hector L. MacQueen ; Choice of law regarding copyright and the Dead Sea scrolls : the basic principles / Paul L. C. Torremans ; Legal aspects of the recent history of the Qumran scrolls : access, ownership title and copyright / Wojciech Kowalski ; Assaying Qimron's originality / David Nimmer
- Pt. 3. History of the study of the Qumran scrolls. The original team of editors / John Strugnell ; Access to the Dead Sea scrolls : fifty years of personal experience / Geza Vermes ; The publication of the Dead Sea scrolls / Emanuel Tov
- Pt. 4. Scholarly enterprise and individual property rights. To publish or not to publish? : anecdotes from the secret history of epigraphy / John Richardson ; Kenyon's Jerusalem excavation reports / Kay Prag
- Appendix : The Supreme Court judgment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1841272124
- OCLC:
- 48198409
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