{"id":128872,"date":"2015-11-17T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/the-diary-of-anne-frank-oh-and-otto-frank-too.html"},"modified":"2015-11-22T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T17:43:19","slug":"the-diary-of-anne-frank-oh-and-otto-frank-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/the-diary-of-anne-frank-oh-and-otto-frank-too.html","title":{"rendered":"The Diary of Anne Frank. Oh, and Otto Frank, too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without taking away anything from the good works that the Anne Frank Foundation does with money they garner from the copyright to The Diary of Anne Frank,<\/i> their eleventh hour declaration that her father, Otto, was actually a co-author of The Diary of Anne Frank,<\/i> rather than an editor \/ compiler, doesn't pass the sniff test.<\/p>\n

It's eleventh hour because the diary passes into the public domain at the beginning of next year. By adding Otto as an author, the copyright would be extended to 2035.<\/p>\n

This is a bad idea for a variety of reasons, as described in the article. Copyright extensions are already problematic; if these particular shenanigans are allowed to stand, it will make things even worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nCopyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Anne Frank Foundation — a Swiss nonprofit that supports children’s charities and provides a stipend to gentiles who hid Jews during WWII — has claimed that Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father, is…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Without taking away anything from the good works that the Anne Frank Foundation does with money they garner from the copyright to The Diary of Anne Frank, their eleventh hour declaration that her father, Otto, was actually a co-author of The Diary of Anne Frank, rather than an editor \/ compiler, doesn't pass the sniff … Continue reading “The Diary of Anne Frank. 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