Horrors! HItler’s Copyright is being Violated!

Funny story about a 1938 article in the British magazine Homes & Gardens, “on Hitler’s mountain retreat in the Bavarian Alps.” The article noted that “The predominant color scheme of Hitler’s ‘bright, airy chalet’ was ‘a light jade green.’ Chairs and tables of braided cane graced the sun parlor, and the Führer, ‘a droll raconteur,’ decorated his entrance hall with ‘cactus plants in majolica pots.'” When someone scanned and posted this article on the Internet, the magazine asserted its copyright and insisted that it be taken down (but it was too late–others had already copied it. Information “wants” to be free, and all that rubbish).

Were I a liberal, I’d link support of copyrights to support of Naziism. Alas, I’m not, so I won’t.

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