Royalties claim over Nazi’s writings raises fears for scholarship
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Many historians have hitherto assumed that no such claims would be made. It had never occurred to Saul Friedländer, emeritus professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles – and one of the leading authorities on the Holocaust – to “ask for an authorisation from the Goebbels estate to quote from his diaries”.
Dan Stone, professor of modern history at Royal Holloway, said that he had “ordinarily simply assume[d] that published works and papers of Nazis are citable without any copyright issues. I regularly cite works by Nazi race theorists, some better known than others, in my work, and I do so on the assumption that there are no copyright issues.”
All this may now be set to change.
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One factoid I've found: Random House did go through something like this before, in the United States, and lost. But then the US Congress strengthened fair use protections:
Salinger v. Random House