Reply from Congressman Emanuel Cleaver concerning Orphan Works Act of 2008

[Leo Mauler]

--- On Tue, 8/12/08, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is "Mein Kampf" an orphan work?

Nope.  All the copyright owners are known (at least concerning U.S. Copyright Law).

German copyright: the government of Bavaria, which bans its printing and is somewhat annoyed that the U.S. government thinks there is an:

American English copyright: Houghton Mifflin (originally seized by the U.S. government right after WWII, then bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1979).

In Sweden the book is legally in the public domain (a court case decision put it there).

The German copyright will expire in 2015, and there is a push for an annotated version to counter what will likely be a massive public domain reprinting of the original work by neo-Nazi groups.