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. We may argue over who owns the copyright, but not over the fact that it still is copyrighted. This leaves it as a book for PG Australia. OTOH, being sued over copyright infringement of "Mein Kampf" will surely bring some media attention to PG :-) -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org