Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Dave,

> I'm surprised to hear that BDB and Gesenius might still be under copyright.  I
> suppose the copyright on Gesenius may have been renewed by somebody, but
> looking at the shelves of my local Christian bookstore, it would appear that
> most anybody with a scanner and a truckload of paper can print BDB...

HH: Yes, it is copyrighted. Look at the publication page in Gesenius' 
Hebrew Grammar. It says:

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, 
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any 
means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, 
without the prior permission of Oxford University Press

HH: Maybe you're looking at the products of people who obtained such 
prior permission.

                                        Yours,
                                        Harold Holmyard