Re: Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

2000-12-06 Thread Tom Vogt
fogstorm wrote: So if an Australian puts it on his web site can the German government sue for copyright infringement? Can they prosecute for violation of their anti Nazi laws? If a German citizen views it in Amsterdam can his government prosecute when he returns home? they'll most likely try

Re: Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

2000-12-04 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:02 PM 12/3/00 -0800, Lizard wrote: At 07:49 PM 12/3/2000, Danny Yee wrote: Lizard wrote: Really? Doesn't the Berne convention override national laws? Probably, yes. Does that mean national copyright laws only apply to their own citizens/residents? What happens in the case of dual

Re: Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

2000-12-03 Thread Danny Yee
Lizard wrote: Really? Doesn't the Berne convention override national laws? Probably, yes. Does that mean national copyright laws only apply to their own citizens/residents? What happens in the case of dual citizenship? And does place of publication come into it? Danny.

Re: Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

2000-12-03 Thread Lizard
At 07:49 PM 12/3/2000, Danny Yee wrote: Lizard wrote: Really? Doesn't the Berne convention override national laws? Probably, yes. Does that mean national copyright laws only apply to their own citizens/residents? What happens in the case of dual citizenship? And does place of publication

Re: Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

2000-12-02 Thread Tom Vogt
Duncan Frissell wrote: Germany's Kampf Furor Renews by Steve Kettmann actually, contrary to almost all other cases of censorship (not that I say this isn't) the german state of bavaria owns the COPYRIGHT of "mein kampf", and as such actually has some kind of standing in most of the cases. yeah,

Re: Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

2000-12-02 Thread Tim May
At 4:43 PM +0100 12/2/00, Tom Vogt wrote: Duncan Frissell wrote: Germany's Kampf Furor Renews by Steve Kettmann actually, contrary to almost all other cases of censorship (not that I say this isn't) the german state of bavaria owns the COPYRIGHT of "mein kampf", and as such actually has some

Re: Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

2000-12-02 Thread Danny Yee
Actually, the *US* copyright was siezed by the US government at the beginning of the war and not returned to Germany until the last decade or so. So there are plenty of US copies that would remain legal. In Australia at least, I think Mein Kampf is now out of copyright (it's still 50