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Originally Posted by HarryT
Fortunatately, that won't happen for a long time. Otto Frank, who I believe would be regarded as the author as far as copyright goes, died in 1980, so it won't enter the public domain in Europe until 1st Jan 2051. I share the views of the previous posters who state that the Anne Frank Foundation are richly deserving of the royalties from the sale of the book.
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I'm not saying they don't deserve any money they can get, just that it won't matter if the English or any other version doesn't leave copyright for a long long time. All it'll take is the first published version to go PD in whichever language that was and before long all languages will have a version they can read that's also PD.
2050 might not be a bad date though, it'll go PD and hopefully get a surge in readers and be a helpful reminder of what occurred a little over 100 years ago.