Word: copyrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reprinted by permission of the copyright owner, the Chicago Daily News...
...psychopathic marvel, and last week, on the same day, two Manhattan publishing firms brought out the first unexpurgated U. S. translations of the Nazi Good Book. One firm (Reynal & Hitchcock) will presumably earn royalties for the Führer, the other (Stackpole), being printed in defiance of the Hitler copyright, will not. Excess profits from both will go to German refugee organizations...
Behind the two editions of Mein Kampf lay a publishing battle as hard-fought as many an early Hitler struggle. Having made scrupulous arrangements with the copyright holders, Reynal & Hitchcock applied for a temporary injunction against Stackpole, which claimed-among other things-that Hitler's Battle now belongs to the public domain. Last week a Federal judge in Manhattan denied the injunction. Both publishers meanwhile battled against time, with the result that both translations are hurried, occasionally inaccurate, always heavy and Germanic in idiom. The Stackpole version is somewhat easier reading, the Reynal & Hitchcock job has the advantage...
...Reproduced by permission of the copyright owner, Chappell...
...embarrassed by the decision as Defendants Pearson and Allen was the Copyright Office. If publications get the idea they do not have to file for copyright unless and until they think they are damaged, they may hold off in such numbers that the Government's $300,000 a year in copyright fees may dwindle to almost nothing...