On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Jeroen Hellingman (Mailing List Account) wrote:
The copyright issue is unclear. It probably is still in copyright in the US, but there will probably be nobody who has standing to sue for copyright infringment. In Germany, the state of Bavaria has confiscated the copyrights, but it has no legal power to confiscate copyrights outside its jurisdiction.
Many German lawyers argue that Bavaria had no right to confiscate the copyrights ... but this is immaterial.
"Mein Kampf" was written in 1924 and Hitler died in 1945, so copyright has not expired in the US and in Europe.
Actually, many countried in Europe are still "life +50" or so I am told, perhaps even half the countries in the world where this copyright would already have expired, and some are "life +60" which would make this one expire about now. mh