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Nice one a holocaust joke.
by setra 11y ago
Nice one a holocaust joke.
- Jedd 11y agoI'm not sure it's a holocaust joke. Heirs and descendants are not synonymous. EDIT: read the ownership dispute & history[1] at wikipedia - it certainly reads like various inheritors (heirs?) have gone to some lengths to extend the copyright of the original material by making periodic changes. I am not a lawyer, consequently I don't understand how such changes can affect status of original work (as in - how they can apply retrospectively to the original work - and not just affect copyright of those changes). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl#Copyright_and_ownership_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl#Copy...
- Nutmog 11y agoActually, her heirs are the ones milking the system. They own the copyright and could put it in the public domain if they wanted. They've formed a foundation who's job is to monetize her works.
- chris_wot 11y agoI'm as appalled as the next man by this ridiculous copyright situation, but they could also be trying to ensure that nobody can modify the work in a way that would be disrespectful to the memory of Anne Frank. That's a real concern, given that there are a lot of Neo-Nazis in the world.
- lbarrett 11y agoBut satire is covered by fair use, right? So I think the neo-Nazis aren't hampered by the copyright.
- chris_wot 11y agoYeah, fair point.
- Kristine1975 11y agoI doubt neo-nazis care about the copyright of a book written by "a dirty Jew."
- chris_wot 11y agoYeah, but the copyright holder wouldn't necessarily be happy with a commercial enterprise that adapted the work as Neo-Nazi propaganda. I'm just saying that the motivation around holding copyright might not only be monetary.