Editing Dead Sea Scrolls (section)

====''A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls'' (1991)====
After further delays, attorney [[William John Cox]] undertook representation of an "undisclosed client", who had provided a complete set of the unpublished photographs, and contracted for their publication. Professors Robert Eisenman and [[James M. Robinson|James Robinson]] indexed the photographs and wrote an introduction to ''A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls'', which was published by the Biblical Archaeology Society in 1991.<ref>[[Robert Eisenman|Eisenman, Robert H.]] and James Robinson, ''A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls'' in two volumes (Biblical Archaeology Society of Washington, DC, 1991).</ref> Following the publication of the ''Facsimile Edition'', Professor [[Elisha Qimron]] sued Hershel Shanks, Eisenman, Robinson and the Biblical Archaeology Society for copyright infringement for publishing without authorization or attribution his decipherment of one of the scrolls, MMT. The District Court of Jerusalem found in favour of Qimron.<ref>Civil Case (Jer) 41/92 Qimron v. Shanks et al. (30 March 1993) [Hebrew].</ref> The court issued a restraining order which prohibited the publication of the deciphered text, and ordered defendants to pay Qimron NIS 100,000 for infringing his copyright and the right of attribution. Defendants appealed the [[Supreme Court of Israel]] which approved the district court's decision. The Supreme Court further ordered that the defendants hand over to Qimron all the infringing copies.<ref>Unofficial translation of {{cite web |url=http://www.tau.ac.il/law/members/birnhack/DSStranslation.pdf |title=CA 2709/93, 2811/93 Eisenman et al v. Qimron (30 August 2000) |access-date=27 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520081457/http://www.tau.ac.il/law/members/birnhack/DSStranslation.pdf |archive-date=20 May 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> The decision met Israeli and international criticism from copyright law scholars.<ref>{{citation |first=Michael D. |last=Birnhack |ssrn=905114 |title=The Dead Sea Scrolls Case: Who Is an Author? |others=23 (3) EIPR 128 (2001)|date=30 May 2006}}</ref><ref>Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, "Inspiration and Innovation: The Intrinsic Dimension of the Artistic Soul" 81 ''Notre Dame L. Rev.''. 1945 (2006)</ref><ref>David Nimmer, Authorship and Originality, 38 Houston L. Rev. 1, 159 (2001)</ref><ref>Urszula Tempska, "Originality after the Dead Sea Scrolls Decision: Implications for the American Law of Copyright", 6 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 119 (2002).</ref><ref>Timothy H. Lim, "Intellectual Property and the Dead Sea Scrolls", ''Dead Sea Discoveries'' Vol 9, No. 2 (2002) p. 187.</ref>