Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 23/07/2006 04:29, kenneth greifer wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
According to 
http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/?action=getVersionInfo&vid=81 , the 
Westminster Leningrad Codex text available at this site is in the public 
domain i.e. not copyrighted. As our moderator Kirk Lowery is responsible 
for this text (see http://www.wts.edu/hebrew/), perhaps he can confirm this.

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Peter Kirk
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