Re: Nazi War Posters

From: Dan L Burk <BURKDANL[_at_]shu.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:56:14 -0500

On 10/29/98, Moritz Roettinger <moritz.roettinger[_at_]dg23.cec.be> wrote:
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> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Michael Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:
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> > 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?
>
> I presume that the posters are protected by copyright.

Why do you presume that?

Aside from the usual questions of fair use, etc., the U.S. government condemned a fair amount of German intellectual property in both WWI & WWII. (That is how Bayer lost its name in the U.S.) I have no idea whether Nazi posters were among the takings, but I certainly wouldn't presume that they weren't.

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Dan L. Burk
Seton Hall University
burkdanl[_at_]shu.edu

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