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569 Singer, “HUC Opens Access to Photos of Dead Sea Scrolls,” 1.
570 Gottschalk to Zafren, 10 January 1992, MS 20/A2b-4/1968–1991, Dead Sea Scrolls.
571 Petrie, “Ancient Secrets Stirring,” 6a.
572 Ellen K. Coughlin, “Opening the Dead Sea Scrolls Archive Underlines Problems That Can
Complicate Access to Research Material,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (2 October 1991):
A6, A10, A11. Quotes on A10.
573 Gilner to IAA, 8 November 1991, Administrative File: Dead Sea Scrolls, Klau Library.
574 Sample form signed by Abegg, 7 November 1991, appended to Gilner to IAA, 8 November
1991.
575 Sussman to Gilner, 11 November 1991, Administrative File: Dead Sea Scrolls,
Klau Library.
576John Noble Wilford, “Dead Sea Scrolls to be Published: Two Scholars Report Access to 1,787
Documents That had not Been Issued,” The New York Times (20 November 1991): A7.
577Ibid. Ultimately, the Huntington Library never actually released their negatives, and they were
turned over to the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center in Claremont after Moffett’s death in
1995. The center now keeps one copy in Claremont for research and another in a climatized vault
near Tahoe City, California. Email correspondence from James Sanders, 28 August 2008.
578Larry Yudelson, “Photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls to be Published,” The American Israelite
(5 December 1991): A7, A29.
579Peter Steinfels, “Dead Sea Scrolls Free of Last Curb,” The New York Times (27 November
1991): A22.
580For an overview of the case see the essays collected in On Scrolls, Artefacts and Intellectual
Property, ed. Timothy H. Lim, Hector L. McQueen, and Calum M. Carmichael (Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 2001). See, more recently, Raphael Israeli, Piracy in Qumran: The Battle
over the Scrolls of the Pre-Christ Era (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2008).
581For discussion see Cindy Albert Carson, “Raiders of the Lost Scrolls: The Right of Scholarly
Access to the Content of Historic Documents,” Michigan Journal of International Law 16
(1994–1995): 199–248. A copy of the court’s ruling is translated in Lim et al., On Scrolls,
Artefacts and Intellectual Property, 26–62. The case eventually ended up in the Supreme Court
of Israel. The ruling with a summary of the previous court action is likewise found in On Scrolls,
Artefacts and Intellectual Property, 233–258.
582Zachary L. Grayson of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen to B.Z. Wacholder, 16 February
1993, Ben-Zion Wacholder, Biography—Nearprint File. The letter is also cited in David
Nimmer, “Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Authorship and Originality,” Houston Law
Review 28 (2001): 69–70.
583Carson, “Raiders of the Lost Scrolls,” 335. Further discussion can be found in Nimmer,
“Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Authorship and Originality,” 1–222.
584 “Bits & Pieces: Qimron Threatens More Scholars,” BAR 19, no.3 (May/June 1993): 72.
585Email communication with Martin Abegg, 10 May 2008.
586 “Dead Sea Scrolls Scholars Seek Protection From Suit,” St. Paul Pioneer Press (1 August 1993):
16a. See also Nimmer, “Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” 70.
587 “American Professors Seek to Block Qimron’s Control of MMT,” BAR 19, no.6 (Nov./Dec.
1993): 65.
588Nimmer, “Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” 69.
589 “BAR Decides to Appeal Qimron Decision, After All,” BAR 19, no.6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 66.
590Email communication with Martin Abegg, 10 May 2008.
591Hershel Shanks, “Intellectual Property Law and the Scholar: Cases I Have Known,” in On
Scrolls, Artefacts and Intellectual Property, 70.
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