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Fragments of Ecclesiastes from Qumran Cave 4. This image of portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls is not eligible for copyright as under 17 U.S.C. § 101, to be considered a derivative work [of the original scrolls] it must incorporate a substantial element of a preexisting work of authorship and recast, transform, or adapt those elements. The fragments of scroll depicted here have not been transformed in the slightest -they are presented in a different medium, but have not been changed in the process such that it meets the criteria for a derivative work under copyright law. Notwithstanding: Photograph by Bruce and Kenneth Zuckerman, West Semitic Research, in collaboration with the Princeton Theological Seminary. Fragments held at the Department of Antiquities, Jordan.