Buying Mein Kampf via the Net
Tom Vogt
tom at ricardo.de
Wed Dec 6 03:58:51 PST 2000
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?
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