on 2014-04-28 14:24 Bruce Walker quoted:
"A close reading of US copyright law indicates that none of the parties who acquired Maier’s negatives from the storage warehouse or afterward -- and are publishing them now without her written permission -- have a legal right to do so."
my quibble with that sentence is that it doesn't take a particularly _close_ reading to know that creating a work is the source of copyright, not physically owning a copy (even the only copy)
apparently the issues surrounding this have been simmering for a while — i found this article which isn't paywalled:
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