Delirium wrote:
Does this mean that printed collections of quotes,
like the equivalent
of the English world's ubiquitous _Bartlett's Book of Quotations_, are
not commonly available in German bookstores?
Answering my own question, it appears that such books of quotations
*are* readily available in Germany. Amazon.de, for example, sells all
the standard English-language books of quotations, from the _Oxford
Concise Dictionary of Quotations_ to the _Random House Webster's
Quotationary_, and most of them include unlicensed quotations from
20th-century figures like Einstein.
See:
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/11902/ref=br_dp_bl_2/028-00243…
Since these publishers haven't been prohibited from selling their books
in Germany, it seems that whatever prohibitions might exist aren't being
enforced.
-Mark