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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: JCR128 AT student.apu.ac.uk
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] tanakh in hebrew and copyright rules
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:58:01 +0100

On 24/07/2006 12:38, JAMES CHRISTIAN READ wrote:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89078&package_id=93753

The above link is probably more useful than the previous link I posted as this one takes you directly to hebrew texts.
The aleppo, the WLC and a modern hebrew text are all there.

Thanks for these links. But as the Aleppo text is based on the copyrighted Mechon Mamre there is clearly no guarantee that these texts are in fact free of copyright encumbrances. As for the "Biblia Hebraica", the French notes to this say (when the character encoding is changed to "Western (ISO-8859-1)"): "You are not the owner of this text. It belongs to humanity." (So far, so good.) "You are authorised to copy freely the biblical text and use it according to your needs, such as for an example or a citation, including in a commercial publication; but it must not contain only the biblical text. ... You are not authorised to SELL an edition of the biblical text or of a part of the text." (But the transcribers aren't the owners of this text either, so what gives them the right to authorise and not authorise what can be done with it?)

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Peter Kirk
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