If she'd lived, her book _wouldn't be so important to the entirety of humankind_.
You have a feeling about what she'd do about it? You're putting words in a Holocaust victim's mouth. For shame. On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well.. I don't think if it is good point. I mean - I have rather feeling > that if only she could, she would probably decide to release her diary to > public domain. Or in other words - this text is so important to the entire > humankind that its publishing should not be blocked by copyright law just > in order to produce some extra income. > > We had similar case in Poland - regarding works of Janusz Korczak, of which > copyright was extended due to some legal tricks which were very disputable. > I helped a bit in legal battle to put his works back to public domain and > am quite proud to do so... > > > > 2016-02-16 19:38 GMT+01:00 Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland < > rient...@wikimedia.nl>: > >> I think you raise a very good point, Jonathan. Anne Frank's diary is not >> just any book. >> >> Paradoxically, the very fact that this is a special book by a special >> author is also the reason why many people - especially in the Netherlands - >> are uncomfortable about the recent and unexpected introduction of the >> possibility that there is a co-author. >> >> Definitely, this is a very sensitive issue and Wikimedia Nederland is >> proceeding very, very cautiously. No-one should play copyright games with >> Anne Frank's diary. >> >> (For those interested, ENWP has good information on the copyright issues: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl#Copyright_and_ownership_dispute >> ) >> >> >> Sandra Rientjes >> Directeur Wikimedia Nederland >> 06 31786379 >> >> verzonden vanaf mobiel >> I may have an unpopular view here, but when an author has been murdered, >> especially one so young, I find it distasteful to try to make that a test >> case re copyright. If Anne Frank hadn't been murdered she might well still >> be alive today, and presumably her work would still be in copyright. >> >> By all means we should be encouraging people to freely license things >> openly, and arguing for open licensing against those who claim copyright on >> faithful copies of out of copyright work, and for freedom of panorama in >> countries less open about such things than Armenia or the UK. >> >> I'm sort of OK about as Michael Maggs put it using it to "increase >> awareness of the excessive length (95 years) of some US copyright terms." >> Though I'd hope there are other examples where we don't look like taking >> advantage of the murder of a child. I'm also OK with using this as an >> example of us taking copyright seriously. >> >> But though it is an important work, is it really one we should be trying to >> force into the open against the wishes of a charity set up by her >> relatives? >> >> Regards >> >> Jonathan/WereSpielChequers >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > > > -- > Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz > http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek > http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
