[Avodah] Copyright Law and Aruch haShulchan

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

AhS YD 225:2 (still in Hilkhos Nedarim, not available in the classical
edition) says that he saw the PT ask on the Rambam's intro to Moreh
Nevuchim, how he can be mashbia beElokai Yisbarakh... Well, to quote
Fraedlander's version:

    I adjure any reader of my book, in the name of the Most High, not
    to add any explanation even to a single word: nor to explain to
    another any portion of it except such passages as have been fully
    treated of by previous theological authorities: he must not teach
    others anything that he has learnt from my work alone, and that has
    not been hitherto discussed by any of our authorities. ...

So the question raised os: How can the Rambam be mashbia others without
their saying "amein" or the like?

RYME adds that the intro to Seifer haMaor similarly has a line being
mashbia any publishers or copyists from copying the work without the
introduction.

So the answer is that of course someone can make an issurim on his
own item.

VeTalmud Chakham le'olam Torasam shelahem hi, af acharei mosam.

Not like physical property, which you don't own after you die. "Upashut
hu!"

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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