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Article: Dead Sea Scroll prompts intellectual property suit.(World)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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JERUSALEM - The document at the heart of the appeal that reached the Israeli Supreme Court last month could hardly have been older - a Dead Sea Scroll written about 150 B.C.
But what drew the attention of the international legal community to the case was the likelihood of a precedent-setting ruling on that modern legal concept - intellectual property rights.
At issue were the rival copyright claims of an Israeli scholar who had spent 11 years reconstructing the tattered scroll and a Washington publisher who said copyright died with the scroll's author 2,000 years ago.
The badly fragmented document was among the Dead Sea Scrolls found half a ...