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- Extending the copyright of Anne Frank’s diary is wrongheaded and a disservice to humanity
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Saturday 14 November 2015
Anne Frank’s diary is one of the most powerful historical texts of the 20th Century. It documents the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe in a way that is both incredibly detailed and (rare for such pieces) easy for children to relate to. So, if there’s one text that deserves to be freely available to all of humanity in a world where the shadows of fascism and oppression keep rearing their ugly heads, it’s the Diary of Anne Frank. Sadly, the foundation that controls the diary is adding Anne’s father as co-author in a ‘copyright hack’ to extend its control of the…
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