Editing Struwwelpeter (section)

===Copyright issues===
In 1847, ''Struwwelpeter''{{'s}} publishing house sued a Nuremberg publisher for printing the book on [[Broadsheet|broadsheets]].<ref name=":0" />

In 1851, the same organization sued publisher Christian Scholz on grounds that he had plagiarized ''Struwwelpeter'' by publishing translations of the book in English, Dutch and Swedish. Scholz lost the case and was sentenced to pay a fine of 1,040 gulden, along with court costs of 127 gulden. He was also ordered to destroy all [[Lithography|lithographic plates]] and unsold books in his inventory. This became one of the first copyright court cases in Germany.<ref name=":0" />

In 1891 [[Mark Twain]] wrote his own translation of the book, but because of copyright issues Twain's ''Slovenly Peter'' was not published until 1935, 25 years after his death.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ashton |first1=Susanna |last2=Petersen |first2=Amy Jean |date=1995 |title=Fetching the Jingle Along: Mark Twain's Slovenly Peter |url=https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=english_pubs |journal=Children's Literature Association Quarterly |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=36–41 |doi=10.1353/chq.0.0938 |s2cid=144102259 |id={{Project MUSE|249470}}|url-access=subscription }}</ref>