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I am more distressed that a work by a German, at the time stateless in the Netherlands, that long ago, and given the global importance of such a work, that the
by eggy 11y ago
I am more distressed that a work by a German, at the time stateless in the Netherlands, that long ago, and given the global importance of such a work, that the U.S. even has the copyright. The explanation in Wikimedia I understand clearly, but I do not acept it.
- matthewbauer 11y agoIt's interesting that there's even debate over whether it's public domain in Europe: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-02/anne-franks-diary-goes-online-despite-rights-dispute/7064328 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-02/anne-franks-diary-goes...
- Esau 11y agoBecause money.
- legulere 11y agoWhy should foreign stuff not be protected by copyright? Think about american movies or software written in america not being protected abroad. It's also not the US that owns the copyright but the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel, which got the copyright from her father.
- kuschku 11y agoIf I live in a country where copyright term is 1 day, and I publish online every Disney movie ever created, the US will enforce US copyright terms on me. Why does the copyright of where the reader lives, not where the publishing person lives, matter?
- legulere 11y agoNot if you only make it available to people in your country. If you don't plan to travel to the US or to a country with an extradition agreement with the US concerning this you won't even need to care about that. States want to be autonomous and set the rules that are in force in their country on their own. When you download stuff while sitting in the US, it's happening in the US. When the servers you're downloading it from are also standing in the US, like in this case, then it's even more clear that this is happening in the US.
- zodiac 11y agoThe US doesn't "have the copyright", the author or her heirs etc owns the copyright under US law