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Re: Copyright question



Tom's dilemma of who owns copyright to photographs salvaged from an
abandoned building slated for demolition with the chain of title running, as
he said:


In summary:

Company A's corporate photographers took the photos.
Company B acquires Comopany A as a division.
Company B phases out all former Company A operations, but keeps the division
built around it going.
Company B sells all interest in the division built from Company A to
Companies C and D.


Inspires me to suggest, only half facetiously, that our lawmakers should
borrow a principle of real estate law-adverse possession.
Or, perhaps, the right of salvage from maritime law.

Paul R. Scott
Records Management Officer
Harris County, TX

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