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The long arm of copyright: Millions blocked from reading original versions of The Diary of Anne Frank
by Timothy Vollmer Copyright, Open CultureThe original writings of The Diary of Anne Frank should have entered the public domain on January 1, 2016. They should have become freely accessible to everyone who wants to read and experience this important cultural work. Instead, the texts remain clogged in the pipes of EU copyright law. In some countries like Poland, the…