Polish court drops case against 'Mein Kampf' publisher

> Polish court drops case against 'Mein Kampf' publisher
> European Jewish Press Monday, 28 May 2007
>
> WARSAW-COLOGNE - A regional court in Poland has conditionally
dropped a
> criminal case against a Polish publisher charged with breaking
copyright
> laws for publishing Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'.
>
> The Wroclaw (Breslau) court in southwestern Poland ruled that a
> publisher, identified only as Marek S., broke copyright law by
printing
> 3,000 copies of the Polish translation of Mein Kampf ("My Struggle'')
in
> 2005, the Polish news agency PAP reported.
>
> The state of Bavaria in Germany, which owns the rights to Mein Kampf

> brought a case in 2005 against the publishing house in Poland.
>
> Bavarian authorities underlined that they strictly adhere to the
> copyright laws in order to prevent the spreading of Hitler's
philosophy.
>
> Arguing that the harm caused by the small-scale publishing of the
book
> was minimal - especially since Marek S. agreed in a 2005 civil trial
to
> halt printing and withdraw the work from bookstores at his own cost -
the
> Polish court agreed to drop the case against the publisher for a
> probationary period of two years.
>
> Mein Kampf is banned from public display or sale in Germany, though
it is
> available for historical research in libraries.
>
> http://ejpress.org/article/17104
>