> Considering that Ansel Adams is a business that is worth more now than it > ever was while he was alive, I foresee a potential problem for the garage sale > buyer, now that he has publicized his story (after 10 years of working to get it > authenticated). Ansel's estate could argue that since the negatives were > never sold they were illegally removed by someone and the current owner is > thus in possession of stolen property. I am not a lawyer, so I don't know how > valid that argument would be - but the estate could have deeper pockets > than the artist and at least perhaps throw a wrench in the works of any > potential sale.
if they've been sitting around in storage for that long, unclaimed by the original owner's heirs then they belong to the owner of the storage facility. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
