[OT] A call for a lawyer

2003-06-22 Thread Ely Levy
Hey, I'm doing OSS project related to old jewish scripts (something like SWORD) and I have some copyright problem I wonder if anyone on the list has official law education and can answer me the following question. a) If someone put non copyright metirial like the bible or some other jewish book

Re: [OT] A call for a lawyer

2003-06-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003, Ely Levy wrote about [OT] A call for a lawyer: a) If someone put non copyright metirial like the bible or some other jewish book which has expired copyright on the internet can I freely copy it or does it fall under some copyright law? Before I say anything I must make

Re: [OT] A call for a lawyer

2003-06-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: [OT] A call for a lawyer: said (paraphrasing what I can recall) that in Israel, you can only copyright something if non-trivial amount of creation and creativity was involved in making it. Hard work has nothing to do with Israeli copyright