Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

[Tim May]

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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