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A poster written in two columns in Hebrew and Yiddish addressed to the woman of the house who purchases meat for herself and her family....who else but the housewife would understand what it means to take away the livelihood of tens of other families...
The woman who comes to purchase mean must know these three things:
1) The Ashkenazi Shechitah in Jerusalem is based and organized still by the great former Gaonim of Jerusalem--the Gaon, R. Meir Auerbach, R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin, R. S. Salant, et al...and follows the rules and regulations of Shechitah as set up by them and under the supervision of the Chief Rabbi, R. Abrahm Isaac HaKohen Kook.
2)The separate shechitah which opened up in Jerusalem by the leaders of Agudat Yisrael in the name of politics, and as a source of money..and they take away the livelihood and ..the bread of all the workers in schechitah...their number is greater than tens and the total number of souls in their families is greater than hundered.
3)On meat that was produced by those who transgress the commandment of "Hasagat Gevul" --it is treif, and it is forbidden to eat it.
The poster has the names of more than 25 people.
Talmudic sources relating to competition are quoted by the halakhic authorities as prooftexts for copyright issues, especially the fear that someone else will copy an author or publisher’s work and start marketing it, depriving the original producer or publisher of the profits. One source (on Bava Batra 21b) forbids other fishermen from trapping a fish that a fisherman has staked out and is trying to attract to his own net:
“[Other] fishermen’s nets should be kept away from a fish [that one fisherman is trying to attract to his net]. [They should keep their nets] the distance that a fish swims. How far is that? Rabba son of Rav Huna says: A parsa.” This and similar sources were applied by the Chatam Sofer (Responsa, Choshen Mishpat #79) to publishing. The original publisher is like the first fisherman doing all the tedious work involved in authoring a work and/or taking it to press and expecting thereby to profit from his efforts and heavy financial investment. Another who copies it and sells the product himself is like the other fishermen who are prohibited to take away the results of the first fisherman’s labors.
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