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Comment Re:Great event! (Score 1) 420

Yeh it is complex and that is why the copyright issue remains. She wrote a personal diary, then heard that there may be publication opportunities after the war (this is during the war) so rewrote parts of it and wrote many notes while obscuring the people involved. Her father inherited the copyright and modified the diaries to remove some of the more personal family things from the recollections while also adding back the correct family name (but not correcting the friends pseudo names ). Then it was modified by publishers in various regions to remove sexual thoughts (which has been done in various counties in the US recently, again!).

So Anne Franks father was an editor but also had a copyright claim and also substantially modified her work. That means there are different copyrights at work here. Her origional ones and the ones obtained/extended by her father producing modified versions (which he had a right to do)

Comment Re:Great event! (Score 1) 420

She wrote her diary then edited it to remove bits change family and freinds names and make it more suitable for later publication. Her father then further edited her edited version. So there are lots of versions of her diary with and without annotations / additional notes that she wrote / changed names for freinds / changed names for family / various bits redacted / various bits rewritten.

Comment Re:What happens when corrosion eats 0.01in of it? (Score 1) 236

They are called bumpers. They can handle up to about a 5 mph crash. More then that and they transfer the energy into the crumple zones of the car to keep idiots like you alive.
Best hope that the person who drives in to your car does not have lifted suspension and bull bars or you may find that your head is rolling around on the other side of the street..

Comment Re:What happens when corrosion eats 0.01in of it? (Score 1) 236

And those comments are from someone who knows not what or why NASCAR exists. Just a brief glance at Wikipedia will answer those questions. It may also explain why F1 cars seem to disintegrate when they crash, but the drivers get out and walk away. Did you know that there are additional cables holding the wheels on to F1 cars so when they do have an accident the hubs and wheels remain loosely attached to the body. You do not want to kill the paying punters in the audience.

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