| Comment | They don’t inherit the original work, but they do own that specific file still though. That ownership can be licensed, paywalled, whatever they want you’re right that copyright isn’t really the avenue of IP law most appropriate to assess this distribution.
If you go through the expense of digitising, and exposing, items like this picture, you are under no obligation to allow free public access. Anyone can use the picture as it is public domain, but that doesn’t mean everyone is entitled to use this file containing the scan of the picture, which remains the property of the digitiser. |
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