Debatable Copyright and Online Shakespeare

摘要

French academic Olivier Ertz-scheid and French parliamentarian Isabelle Attard are taking something of a copyright gamble by posting Anne Frank's diary online. Although it has been 70 years since Frank's death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the Swiss-based Anne Frank Fonds (AFF) insists that the standard copyright term of life plus 70 years does not apply to The Diary of a Young Girl, because Frank's father, Otto, edited and had enough creative input into the version that was in print from 1947 until the 1990s, he earned his own copyright. He died in 1980. In addition, the AFF claims that original manuscripts of the diary were first published as a scholarly edition in the 1980s.