Michael A. Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:
>
> I want to write a paper discussing propaganda, and illustrate it with
> contemporary material. I have located some Web sites with images of
> these posters. Is there any problem with using them?
Clearly, there may be a problem, in that all the authors/designers died 53 years ago or more recently, and under current German law their rights are inalienable (even to the NSDAP?!). It would be entirely comprehensible for the estates of some of the authors/designers to wish to suppress the works, whose reproductions are clearly detrimental to the reputations of the authors. However, it would be more rational for them to exercise the corollary to the right of identification by insisting on anonymity.
However, in the real world... the joke about the masochist and the sadist is so apposite that I fear it's tasteless in this context.
Mike Holderness
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike
<mch[_at_]cix.compulink.co.uk>
Received on Thu Oct 29 1998 - 18:26:30 GMT
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