[WikiEN-l] Obscure Copyright

[Fred Bauder]

Wouldn't it belong to his heirs?

Fred

> From: Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org>
> Organization: Boskonia
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:12:19 -0800
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Obscure Copyright
> 
> 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?
> 
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