Is it permissible to prevent the copying and selling of religious works, such as encyclopedias and Quranic recitations, under the pretext of copyright, despite the fact that this deprives many people of benefiting from them due to their high price, and does receiving the profits from their sale diminish the reward?

It is not permissible to copy copyrighted laser discs because scholars have affirmed intellectual property rights. If one cannot afford to buy these programs due to their high price, one can rent or borrow them. The high prices of books and educational materials cannot be used as an excuse to violate the rights of authors and publishers.