Fred Bauder wrote:
Wouldn't it belong to his heirs?
Fred
>From: Sean Barrett
>
>I have a document created by a sailor in the [[Kriegsmarine]] during
>[[World War II]]. Thus, the document is approximately 60 years old, but
>its author didn't die until 1982. The document has no copyright notice
>associated with it and was never published until it was captured by the
>Allies after the war. I can justify a claim to fair use for Wikipedia's
>purposes, but I'd like to determine what its copyright status really is.
>Can anyone help me?
>
>
Who the copyright belongs to is a different issue.
I would venture to guess that the vast majority of material that is
protected by copyright lacks an owner who would have rights to be
protected. This may have some bearing on the desire of major copyright
holders to have criminal law apply. I would suggest that in criminal
law it may not be necessary to prove who owns the copyright, while in
civil law the complainant needs to have standing.
Ec