Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc Small wrote, about immediately-postwar Japanese lenses: > Their lenses were simple thefts of German designs. Zeiss US wanted to sue, > but, as they were an American government property, the authorities felt it > improper to allow litigation. Didn't Leitz lose their patents as war reparations? Hence the worldwide rash of postwar copies of their cameras (some of which now fetch higher prices than the originals). If this applied to Zeiss too, there was no intellectual property to steal. I would like to know how far this went. What is the present-day copyright status of books published under the Third Reich? (I have a specific title in mind here, but far removed from photography). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- jack@purr.demon.co.uk - Jack Campin, 2 Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE