Buying Mein Kampf via the Net
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Wed Dec 6 10:14:42 PST 2000
At 12:58 PM +0100 12/6/00, Tom Vogt wrote:
>Tim May wrote:
>> This is misleading. There is much debate about ownership of the
>> copyright, whether it has expired (as would normally be the case
>> after roughly 70 years, whether the licenses sold to other publishers
>> are valid, etc.).
>
>it's been changed to 70 years after death of author recently, at least
>in the US. that would make the expire date 2015.
>
>
>
>> Quite odd that the publisher Houghton Mifflin would say they are
>> donating all royalties since 1979 if in fact no copies have been
>> published since 1945!
>>
>> Even more odd if some of us have copies in our libraries which were
>> published much more recently than 1945.
>
>here's what I wrote:
>
>> only copies printed before 1945 are actually legal,
>
>am I missing the link between "legal" and "existing", or did you imagine
>it?
The copies published in the United States are fully legal.
Whether Germany likes our laws is not my concern.
--Tim May
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