On 31 October 2011 15:49, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Do we need to avoid them for some special legal reason or just because we don't feel comfortable saying "Yay! This brilliant author got shot in the head defending his country 70 years ago so we can now copy his books with paying for them!"? If it's the latter, then we can probably word things sufficiently delicately.
Legal reasons are limited to France. Its mostly a PR thing. Don't want the risk of someone starting a campaign to extend copyright because someone got bombed during WW2.