Project:The copyright status of Wittgenstein’s works: Difference between revisions

The copyright status of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s works is a more complicated matter than that of most other authors. This is largely because the greater part of his writings was published posthumously, with the intervention of different editors, by different publishers, in different countries. The purpose of this essay is to dispel some common misconceptions about copyright in general, to describe the rules that apply to Wittgenstein’s literary legacy and to clarify the current copyright status of his writings. This, in turn, is to illustrate how the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project strives to pursue its goals in a thoroughly lawful manner. This text is a research paper; it is scholarly in nature and does not constitute legal advice.