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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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.
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
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  |
Originally you were stating that Random House was publishing this without expectation of profit. Now you're saying that the estate has dollar signs in their eyes for 1% of that net profit. Which is it?