CDR: Re: Why Free Speech Matters

Tom Vogt tom at ricardo.de
Wed Sep 27 01:14:16 PDT 2000


David Honig wrote:
> >The hint of illegality? Well, of course this is a reason, but the question
> >remains that if all people had legal access to nationalsocialist
> >propaganda such as "Mein Kampf", would the fact that that mainpart of our
> 
> Actually MK *is* available online to everyone, I think from hitler.com
> (I was curious when Germany messed with some hitler.de domain...)  I don't
> know if this infringes copyright, but that would be the only law that
> matters here ;-)

actually, it does. this is one of the cases where copyright is being
used to suppress information. the state of bavaria holds the copyright
on "mein kampf" and afaik has not authorized ANY printing of it ever
since hitler died.






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