Friday, February 5, 2010

I am opposed to the use of copyright as a tool of censorship (although that is it historical root use!). A great example is the reluctance to permit Munich's Institute for Contemporary History to publish a thorough, academic presentation of Mien Kampf that places the work in historical context. I am strongly in support of the wisdom of permitting this publication in advance of the expiration of the copyright in the work (at which point you know it will be published in full by different groups with a very different and destructive purpose). That will happen in 2015. Education prior to that is critial. The Bavarian government's refusal (it owns the copyright) is short-sighted and dangerous.

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