[Foundation-l] German law and wikiquote

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Wed Mar 9 18:43:37 UTC 2005


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_2/028-0024331-1137322

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




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