Anne Frank's Diary and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf Both Enter the Public Domain on Friday

A copyright fight is brewing in Europe this week as the deadline after which two key WWII-era texts will fall within the public domain steadily approaches. In Europe, a book becomes public domain 70 years after the author’s death, on the first day of January. This Friday, January 1st, both Anne Frank’s Diary of a…
Make Hitler Happy: The Beginning of Mein Kampf, as Told by Coca-Cola
"Make it happy!" Coca-Cola's new marketing campaign exhorts. The campaign, introduced during a Super Bowl commercial, is accompanied by a stunt through which Twitter users reply to negative tweets with the hashtag "#MakeItHappy"; Coca-Cola then transforms those tweets into cute ASCII art. "We turned the hate you found…
History Re-reading: Hitler's Mein Kampf to Be Published in Germany for First Time Since WWII
Bavaria, the German state which holds the copyright to Adolf Hitler's infamous autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf, is preparing to print Germany's first commercially available copy of the book since the end of World War II.
Hitler Memorabilia Is a 'Small-Scale Industry' in India
Adolf Hitler is enjoying a surge of popularity in India, where a movie is in production, his autobiography is doing brisk sales and the genocidal dictator is "idolized and admired, mostly by the young." Wait, what?
Kenneth Eng Full Of Murderous Rage, Savvy Marketing Strategies
Like so many of us, Kenneth "It Should Have Been Me Who Killed All Those White Kids" Eng, has a book in him. It's a lighthearted, "Bill Maherish" romp through a litany of things Kenneth wants all Asians to hate. Ken's e-mail solicitation going out to publishers reveals that the man is a master strategist of the hard…
