I know Florida, Texas, and other counties have tried and succeeded to ban books, I wonder how that is even legal since we have the first amendment. I tried doing research on this since Huntington Beach is banning books and people were petitioning against that at the main library.

I made a little post asking people to petition on the Orange County sub.

  • Successful_Try543@feddit.de
    11·
    7 months ago

    As the author of that book is now dead since more than 70 years, the copyright has expired and it theoretically can be reproduced. It may be still on a list as ‘harmful for young persons’, propaganda or alike.

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      7 months ago

      The Netherlands use the same copyright laws?

      I always assumed that was just the US copyright system

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
        7·
        7 months ago

        European copyright laws are different from US ones in many ways, but “life of the author plus 70 years” is definitely a thing in Europe.