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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
Maybe it's "morally wrong", but it seems to me that it's legally right for them to pay for extensive use of copyrighted material.
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We'll see what the German court says about legal rights. I venture no prediction.
I just quoted your post, in full. 100 percent. That's beyond fair use. If you are an American, the post I just reproduced is copyrighted material, as, since 1989, we do not require copyright registration.
How much should I pay you?
Or should Mobileread have to pay -- or close?
The Goebbels heirs are unusual in seeking royalties from a non-fiction author. The heirs of Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan, for whatever reasons (I would suggest -- common decency), don't do it. Living leaders who also are authors, including Angela Merkel, GW Bush, and Barack Obama, don't do it. Should publishers, and self-published authors, who quote from their writings have to pay them off as well?