article_snippet.sent: The family of Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, pictured (above) in September 1934, is suing a publisher for royalties over a biography that used extracts from Joseph Goebbels diaries .
article_snippet.sent: The family of Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda is suing a publisher for royalties over a biography that used extracts from Joseph Goebbels diaries.
article_snippet.sent: The dispute comes after Peter Longerich, a leading authority on the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, drew on the diaries for a biography called Goebbels, which was published in Germany in 2010.
article_snippet.sent: Goebbels' diaries – spanning the years 1924 to 1945 - remain in copyright until the end of 2015.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Dresen believes that other publishers have paid for the use of Goebbels's diaries in the past.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Dresen spoke of the censorship implications of this case: 'If you accept that Schacht controls the rights to Goebbels diaries, then – theoretically - you give this person the right to control research.'
article_snippet.sent: Part of Random House's legal argument centres on the copyright ownership because the diaries were going to be published posthumously by Hitler's own publisher.
article_snippet.sent: Although no publisher's contract has survived, Mr Dresen points to evidence within one of diary entries of 1936 which confirms the publication plans.
highlights_snippet.sent: Dispute over historian Peter Longerich's book Goebbels released in 2010 .
  