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Originally Posted by Barcey
- If you violate criminal law you should lose all copyright holdings
- Nobody can have a copyright on important historical documents
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In the US there is a law addressing the first by dunning any proceeds from the copyright.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law
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In certain cases a Son of Sam law can be extended beyond the criminals themselves to include friends, neighbors, and family members of the lawbreaker who seek to profit by telling publishers and filmmakers of their relation to the criminal. In other cases, a person may not financially benefit from the sale of a story or any other mementos pertaining to the crime—if the criminal was convicted after the date lawmakers passed the law in the states where the crime was committed.
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In the second case, diaries and memoirs are not documents but rather manuscripts and have long been published commercially.
http://www.annefrank.ch/234/items/th...e-decades.html