On 15 Sep 2005, at 23:48, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
"Mein Kampf" was written in 1924 and Hitler died in 1945, so copyright has not expired in the US and in Europe. We may argue over who owns the copyright, but not over the fact that it still is copyrighted.
The Dutch Wikipedia claims that rights were transfered in the US and and the UK before 1939 to respectively Houghton Mifflin and Random House. http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/mein_royalties.php has a longer story. Assuming that is true, it is interesting to note that a US publisher claimed the book was in the public domain, because Hitler had published it as a stateless person, but a judge took pity on this stateless person and declared the book copyrighted after all.
This leaves it as a book for PG Australia.
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt -- branko collin collin@xs4all.nl