Wikimedia removes the Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law

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Post by rosser » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 1:47 AM UTC

Wikimedia removes the Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law
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Post by nness » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 2:00 AM UTC

I find it startling that, with the current terms of copyright, no music I'm listening to today or even in the last decade will be in the public domain before I die.

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Post by jessaustin » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 2:19 AM UTC

Thank goodness someone has considered the interests of Anne Frank's heirs...

oh, wait.

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Post by eggy » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 2:23 AM UTC

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.

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Post by setra » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 2:26 AM UTC

jessaustin wrote: post #3

Thank goodness someone has considered the interests of Anne Frank's heirs... oh, wait.

Nice one a holocaust joke.

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Post by magicfractal » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 2:36 AM UTC

That's barbaric. That's why civil disobedience is the only adequate answer to the current overreach of copyright in the united states. It's up to us, technologists, to create and disseminate tools to help out in the dismantlement of an absurd system that is obsolete in the digital age.

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Post by Jedd » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 2:43 AM UTC

setra wrote: post #5

jessaustin wrote: post #3

Thank goodness someone has considered the interests of Anne Frank's heirs... oh, wait.

Nice one a holocaust joke.

I'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#Copy...

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Post by matthewbauer » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 2:44 AM UTC

eggy wrote: post #4

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.

It'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...