US Copyright Law Forces Wikimedia To Remove the Diary of Anne Frank (wikimedia.org)

Today, the Wikimedia Foundation announced its removal of The Diary of Anne Frank from Wikisource, a digital library of free texts. According to the United States' Digital Millennium Copyright Act, works are protected for 95 years from the date of publication, meaning Wikimedia is not allowed to host a copy of the book before 2042. Rogers, the Legal Counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, says this is just one of the many examples of the overreach of the United States' current copyright law. He goes on to say, "Our removal serves as an excellent example of why the law should be changed to prevent repeated extensions of copyright terms."

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Re:it's

[lgw]

And before any googleclippers respond, "it has" doesn't fucking fit either.

WTF is a googleclippers?

Does TFA count as pre-Godwinning the thread?

Re:Promotion of the useful arts

[wonkey_monkey]

I haven't slept for a week. Because that would be too long to sleep for.

Re:it's

[dryeo]

95 years when the copyright is owned by a corporation IIRC, and face it, without that 95 year protection, Anne would never have written her diary due to lack of motivation.