“the law, as it currently stands, does not confer a property interest to the subject of a photograph regardless of how objectionable the photograph’s origins may be”
A Massachusetts judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a woman claiming that she, not Harvard University, is the rightful owner of haunting images of an enslaved father and daughter who she says were her ancestors.
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Tags: Copyright, Harvard University, Moral Rights, Papa Renty, Property, right of privacy, right of publicity, slave photographs
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