Karl Marx is the subject of a fight over the copyright to a large body of his works. (Roger Viollet Collection / Getty Images / December 31, 1864)
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Readers of the world, unite! To fight over Karl Marx’s copyright.
A small, independent publisher with historic ties to the radical British left is at odds with a multilingual radical website, the Marxists Internet Archive at Marxists.org. At issue: the right to use the 50-volume “Marx Engels Collected Works.”
Lawrence & Wishart, a London-based publisher, has asked Marxists.org to remove the copyrighted material from its website. The Marxists at Marxists.org have responded with a flurry of angry anticapitalist rhetoric. And with a petition at Change.org signed by more than 4,000 supporters.
“It is immensely ironic that a private publishing company is claiming the copyright of the collected works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the philosophers who wrote against the monopoly of capitalism and its origin, private property, all their lives,” the petition says.
Lawrence & Wishart, a London-based publisher, has asked Marxists.org to remove the copyrighted material from its website. The Marxists at Marxists.org have responded with a flurry of angry anticapitalist rhetoric. And with a petition at Change.org signed by more than 4,000 supporters.
“It is immensely ironic that a private publishing company is claiming the copyright of the collected works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the philosophers who wrote against the monopoly of capitalism and its origin, private property, all their lives,” the petition says.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-radicals-fight-over-a-karl-marx-copyright-20140429,0,303004.story#ixzz30URjnExB
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