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I want to make a video about how the Zohar knew the Earth was round and had many other information about the Earth they could of never known. According to sources, would copying the verses of the Zohar from a website and pasting them in my notes (iPhone application) be considered stealing? Please cite sources. Thanks.

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  • Free sources are free and there are a lot of free websites with Zohar – kouty Dec 17 '18 at 21:14
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    All depends on the terms of service of the website. Ask them! – Shalom Dec 17 '18 at 21:32
  • IOW, there’s no copyright on the Zohar per se, but an individual/institution’s translation or rendering of it may be protected and likely varies by jurisdiction. – Oliver Dec 17 '18 at 21:54
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    Around the mid-300's BCE the Greeks, Aristotle, for one, figured out the Earth was round from star observation, and even had a pretty good guess at it's circumference. – Gary Dec 18 '18 at 02:07
  • @Gary the circumference was only calculated by eratosthenes http://www.hakirah.org/Vol25Bogacz.pdf – Double AA Dec 18 '18 at 02:37
  • @DoubleAA - oh, sorry, missed the mid 300's BCE(I did write "around") by a few dozen years. It's still a few hundred years from Rashbi's time and a good thousand plus years from when the Zohar was "rediscovered" and publicly copied and distributed for profit by the most honest of our forbears, Moses de Leon. – Gary Dec 18 '18 at 18:37

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