What will happen after the copyright of Mein Kampf expires?

[politicus]

Mein Kampf is incredible poorly written and boring. It will never be a bestseller, even among the far right.

[politicus]

Mein Kampf is incredible poorly written and boring. It will never be a bestseller, even among the far right.

Have you ever tried to read Ayn Rand?

No, Mein Kampf is a highly influential work so I forced myself through it. I could never mobilize the same motivation to get through any of Rand's drivel.

Mein Kampf is incredible poorly written and boring. It will never be a bestseller, even among the far right.

If Dan Brown can become a bestselling author, I see no reason why Adolf Hitler can't join him.

Enjoy your trolling.

[politicus]

Mein Kampf is incredible poorly written and boring. It will never be a bestseller, even among the far right.

Have you ever tried to read Ayn Rand?

Ayn Rands books actually sell among the far right, so I don't quite see the comparison.

The point is that neonazis don't strike me as likely to have a sounder literary taste than American libertarians.

It is not about taste but complexity. There is after all a storyline and some characters in Ayn Rands books - Mein Kampf is a very dry and heavy text. I imagine a neo-Nazi might read some excerpts, but it is not the sort of thing a lot of people would ever actually read.

[politicus]

I am a bit surprised by this coyright business. There is a Danish version from 1999 on sale (laws against political propaganda - even Nazi - would be unthinkable in Denmark). So how did the publisher get permission to publish it if what BRTD says is true? Isn't it just the German version that is banned from publishing in the EU?

According to Wiki it is widely available:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#Current_availability

About Poland:

"In Poland, it was published in 1992 and reprinted in 1998. The Government of Bavaria halted its publication in 2005, stating that the book is protected by copyright. Possession is legal. Trading is legal, but may be considered illegal in case when "intent is to promote NS ideology". It is widely available in larger libraries for research purposes."

[politicus]

What's the copyright status in Denmark? I know in the US the copyright was seized by the federal government along with all German copyrights during the war and eventually sold it to a private entity.

Not sure, but under Sweden they write:

"It has been reprinted several times since 1945; in 1970, 1992, 2002 and 2010. In 1992 the Government of Bavaria tried to stop the publication of the book, and the case went to the Supreme Court of Sweden which ruled in favour of the publisher, stating that the book is protected by copyright, but that the copyright holder is unidentified (and not the State of Bavaria) and that the original Swedish publisher from 1934 had gone out of business. It therefore refused the Government of Bavaria's claim."

Swedish and Danish law are virtually identical on this matter and the original Danish edition was also published by a long gone Nazi publisher, so the situation is identical.