Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/, who have several Hebrew versions (with and 
without vowel and cantilation marks) claim the following:

All of the material in this site is copyrighted.  We are often asked how we 
can claim a copyright in a public domain book like The Bible.  While it is 
quite true that no one can have a copyright that excludes all others from 
preparing their own unique copy of the Bible or other public domain works 
for copyright protection, our Bibles and other materials are not exactly 
like any others and are fully protected by copyright laws in all countries. 
If you want to prepare your own unique Bible or other Torah materials for 
the Web, we are open to giving help and advice toward that end.

You may use materials from this site only for your private study, not for 
publishing in any form, including any Web site.  Under our liberal 
understanding of the Fair Use Doctrine, you may use a few short quotations 
from our site in any other work, including copyrighted publications.  Any 
other use requires written permission from us.

We can be reached by regular mail at Mechon Mamre, 12 Hayyim Vital 
St.,Jerusalem, ISRAEL 95470, by phone at 972-2-652-1906, and by email at 
mtr AT mechon-mamre.org (we speak and write only Hebrew and English).



I think that means that if you want to copy short passages, that't okay, but 
whole pages or chapters, not. But ask them, and maybe enlighten us with 
their answer.

Yigal Levin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MarjorieAlley AT cs.com>
To: <greifer AT hotmail.com>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] tanakh in hebrew and copyright rules


> Hi ---
>
> I hope someone will jump in and answer Kenneth's question. It is something 
> I
> have wondered about myself. I don't know if the day will ever come when I
> actually have an article ready to submit for publication, but I would be
> interested in knowing what the guidelines are.
>
> Thanks,
> Marjorie Alley
>
>
> In a message dated 7/22/2006 11:29:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> greifer AT hotmail.com writes:
>
>
> > Maybe this is not the right place to ask, but I don't know who else to 
> > ask.
> > Is the Tanakh in Hebrew copyrighted? I have seen many books and internet
> > sites that say they are copyrighted, but I thought the Torah was public
> > domain. Is it because they use their own Hebrew fonts or is it something
> > else? I have heard that you can only copyright the source code for a web
> > site.
> >
> > Also, when scholars write books, do they type in all of the Hebrew quotes
> > from the Tanakh themselves or do they use ready-made quotes copied from a
> > book or a cd? Do they have to get permission from a publisher and pay for
> > the right to quote the Hebrew or do they have a public domain version? Is
> > there a public domain Hebrew Tanakh on CD that anyone can use even if it 
> > was
> > for commercial purposes?
>
>
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