copyright public-domain
Can one download the original Hebrew bible text from websites that say &quot;all rights reserved&quot;?
<p>For example, <a href="https://kodesh.snunit.k12.il/i/t/t0601.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">there's a website</a> that has the entire hebrew bible text online [and I assume the original hebrew letters [without translation] is public domain [correct me if I'm wrong]] but the website says at the bottom</p>
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<p>כל הזכויות בטקסטים הספרותיים כפי שהם מופיעים באתר &quot;ספרות הקודש&quot; הן של מכון ממרא.
החומר מופיע באתר סנונית על סמך רישיון מאת מכון ממרא ובאדיבותו הרבה.
החיפוש באתר זה הוא בשיתוף מורפיקס</p>
<p>כל הזכויות שמורות © 2003-2009 (ראה תנאי שימוש)</p>
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<p>{free translation}</p>
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<p>all of the rights, in the books' texts, according to how they are published in [the website named] &quot;holy books] belong to [the organization known as] &quot;machon mamray&quot;. The material appears on the website &quot;sniut&quot; [the base domain] based on a license from &quot;machon mamray&quot;, and by courtesy of it, much of the [content that is] searched in this website is in collaboration with [another company] &quot;moorfeeks&quot;</p>
<p>all rights reserved</p>
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<p>the point is, they have sme kind of license for all of this text, and it says &quot;all rights reserved&quot;, but the original hebrew text itself is [to the best of my knowledge] in the public domain, can I extract only the hebrew text itself and republish it with no issues?</p>

<p><a href="https://www.mechon-mamre.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Someone similar</a> say</p>
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<p>While it is quite true that no one can have a copyright that excludes
all others from preparing their own unique copy of the Bible or other
public domain works for copyright protection,  our Bibles and other
materials are not exactly like any others and are fully protected by
copyright laws in all countries</p>
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<p>So for example, I could theoretically take an ancient public-domain texts and republish it in some modified form. Copyright does not protect the original, but it does protect my modifications. To the extent that Mechon Mamre does include protected material (of their own creation), and Snunit redistributed that material with permission, Mechon Mamre might sue you for copyright infringement. Since they don't say what <em>their</em> creative contribution is, it's hard to evaluate the merits of their claim.</p>
