On 31 October 2011 15:49, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do we need to avoid them for some special legal reason or just because
> we don't feel comfortable saying "Yay! This brilliant author got shot
> in the head defending his country 70 years ago so we can now copy his
> books with paying for them!"? If it's the latter, then we can probably
> word things sufficiently delicately.

Legal reasons are limited to France. Its mostly a PR thing. Don't want
the risk of someone starting a campaign to extend copyright because
someone got bombed during WW2.


-- 
geni

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