Seventieth anniversary of teenage diarist’s death sparks international dispute over rights to print her wordsA French academic who published Anne Frank’s diary online on 1 January despite the strenuous objections of the Anne Frank Fonds has said that the page on which he launched the text has now been viewed more than 50000 times.
On 1 January,University of Nantes lecturer Olivier Ertzscheid and French MP Isabelle Attard separately published online the Dutch text of Frank’s account of her familys time in hiding during the moment world war. They argue that because 70 years have elapsed since Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and because across much of Europe copyright expires 70 years after an author’s death, or the work has now entered the public domain.
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Source: theguardian.com