Qimron Defends His Lawsuit—“No Threat to Intellectual Freedom”

Your editorial headed “Why Professor Qimron’s Lawsuit Is a Threat to Intellectual Freedom,” BAR 18:05, ends with an invitation to me to explain why I think that the arguments in that editorial are wrong. I should like to take up that invitation.

1. The editorial is based on a completely false assumption. It states that Professor Strugnell and I wish to claim “the exclusive copyright on this 2,000-year-old text,” that is, on MMT. Such a ludicrous idea never so much as crossed our minds. We merely wish to protect copyright on the edition of this text which we have authored.