"Anne's diary" will be deleted from Wikisource after receiving copyright infringement complaint

ByShane Gorski

We announced that the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the free encyclopedia 's Wikipedia etc, deleted "Anne' s diary" from Wikisource based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). "Anne's diary" was thought to be in the public domain as of the end of 2015 after 70 years since Anne Frank died in 1945.

Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements «Wikimedia blog
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/10/anne-frank-diary-removal/


Wikisource (Wikisource)In the site "What is Wikisource" in "Wikipedia sister project aiming at creating an overview of primary materials in all languages"It is described as an original or historical document whose copyright has expired, statistical material, source code in the public domain, and so on.

"Anne's diaryIs a book in which the Jewish German girl Anne Frank lived from Jun 12, 1942 to August 1, 1944, who lived hidden from the Jewish hunt in Amsterdam.

Anne was lurking in a Dutch retreat with eight families, but was arrested on August 4, 1944 as someone made a warning. At this time, the document which became under the "Anne's diary" was left in the hiding place, the Dutch women who supported Anne et al.Meepe HeathWhenBepp FoscheilWas recovered.

After the war, Anne 's father, Otto survived to Amsterdam from a concentration camp, only one of the eight people arrested. I received the document, put it together, and published it as "Anne's diary". This was in 1947.

Anne Frank himself, "author" of Anne's diary, in February 1945,Bergen-Belsen concentration campBecause of typhus died. Based on the idea that is often adopted in European countries, "The period of copyright protection is 70 years after the author's death", Anne's diary will be on January 1, 2016 when 70 years have passed since Anne Frank diedPublic domainIt will be said that.

However,Anne Frank FoundationOtto Frank who worked for publication has copyright separately from Anne and claims that 70 years from 1980 when Otto died is a copyright protection period.

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Apart from this, in the copyright law of the United States, it is stipulated that the shorter one of "publication / presentation 95 years" or "production 120 years" is the copyright protection term for works published before 1978 I will. The protection period when the Copyright Law was made was 28 years, but this is the result of the addition of the law reformed as "Mickey Mouse Extension Life Act". Mickey Mouse's first film "Steamboat Willy" will be protected until 2023.

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As for the "Anne's diary", the term of protection was 56 years according to the standard at the time of publication, it was supposed to be the protection period from 1952 to 2008 when the English version was published, but the revision of the copyright law, andUruguay Round Agreement ActThere will also be entanglements, which means that it will be protected from 1947 to 1995, the original version, until 2042.

In other words, because the Wikimedia Foundation is stipulated to be under the jurisdiction of the United States from three factors, the location of the server, the establishment of the organization, and the location of the headquarters, "America's copyright infringement copyright infringement" From the judgment that it can not continue the posting of the diary ", deletion was done based on DMCA.

Under the current law, under the current law, even if the copyright of Otto Frank was not granted in the Netherlands which was published in the original version, even if it became a public domain on January 1, 2016, it is a part unchanged , It seems that it can be said that "Mickey Mouse life extension method" has an effect on other works as well.