WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com writes:
I may have an unpopular view here, but when an author has been murdered, especially one so young, I find it distasteful to try to make that a test case re copyright. If Anne Frank hadn't been murdered she might well still be alive today, and presumably her work would still be in copyright.
This is one of the reasons why I believe that the current copyright system (where the copyright term is determined by the date of author's death) is flawed.
It results in a situation where certain works belonging to the same historical period may have insanely different copyright terms.