Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

[Tom Vogt]

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?