By John Glenday

The publisher of Anne Frank’s diary, famously written at the height of the Second World War, has become embroiled in a royalties battle after claiming that an edition published in 1986 is the definitive work – so maintaining their $1.2 -1.5m per year income from the book.

Despite being published 41 years after Frank’s death in Bergen Belsen at the age of 15 The Anne Frank Fund names her father Otto as a legal co-author to stretch copyright protection a further couple of decades into the future.

Otto Frank died in 1980 and was the only family member to survive the war, Read full story ›

Source: The Drum