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What?!
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Godwin's law
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Archival imagery is both tangible and corporeal. It exists as film, tape, or digital files. It can be copied and manipulated.
The usual rant that copyright enforcement stifles the free exchange of ideas is either just wrong or deliberate sophistry, depending on the cleverness of the ranter.
People who make something own it and all rights associated with it. They can sell or rent those rights as they choose. Copyright law recognizes and enforces those rights, but it certainly does not create them. If copyright law vanished, I'd still have the right to decide who gets to copy my manuscript.
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