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Originally Posted by mrscoach
Public domain is coming, but the work isn't there yet.
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Yes.
It is close in Germany, where Prof. Longerich's biography was published in 2010. Per usual literary practice, there was no royalty payment asked for or given.
The biography is scheduled for release, in the United States, on May 7, 2015. That event seems to have put dollars signs, or maybe euro symbols, in Cordula Schacht's eyes. When the diaries come off copyright is a more complicated legal question is the US than in Germany. Nothing is scheduled to go off copyright in the U.S. until January 2019, and I don't think this is near the front of the list.
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Originally Posted by mrscoach
If a work is copyrighted and is used in someone else's work the holder of the copyright should be paid.
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Have you been paying people you quote on MobileRead? Why not? Their postings are certainly copyrighted. It's true that no one else is paying, but people don't normally pay off copyright holders of works quoted in biographies either.
P.S. Do you and I really hold personal United States copyrights to our posts? I believe so:
http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/whoowns.html
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Unless the work for hire rules apply, the creators of the work are its authors and owners. . . .
Protecting your work is easy today, arguably too easy. It's protected from the moment you hit the save key on your computer, touch your pencil to paper, brush to canvas, well, you see what I mean. Works are protected from the moment of their fixation in a tangible medium of protection. This means that a grocery list enjoys the full force of federal copyright law for enforcing the owners' rights.
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Ideally, posters should only quote parts of my posts when responding, not the whole. Or they can quote it all and send me a private message asking where to send their check
