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Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

19 Comments BY ON February 10th, 2016

Today, in an unfortunate example of the overreach of the United States’ current copyright law, the Wikimedia Foundation removed the Dutch-language text of The Diary of Anne Frank from Wikisource.

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Victory in Germany: court rules in favor of the Wikimedia Foundation

6 Comments BY and ON November 24th, 2015

We are happy to announce that the court of Munich has ruled in favor of the Wikimedia Foundation in Dr. Evelyn Schels v. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc..

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