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Originally Posted by HarryT
It boils down to the question of whether moral objections justify breaking copyright law. I'm pretty sure that the courts will decide that they don't.
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I don't think Random House has really thought this one through. They should hope they lose or there could be a lot of moral objections to paying "criminal" publishing houses money. It sounds like someone thought that paying Goebbels' estate money wouldn't look good (and heh we can save money).
I thought this quote was interesting too:
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The biographer, Peter Longerich, a professor of German history, has argued that a private person should not be given control of important historical documents.
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If you're going to take that stand, why limit it to "a private person"?
So in summary:
- If you violate criminal law you should lose all copyright holdings
- Nobody can have a copyright on important historical documents