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Originally Posted by mrjombi
How does someone own a scan? The photo belongs to the original photographer, not the person who scanned them later.
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If this is about the former member's scans, copyright law in the legal system isn't really the point. OCC respects his request not to let people repost his scans, and everybody here knows what they mean when we say "his scans": the images that he was responsible for converting from printed form to JPEG form. It doesn't matter whether or not he has a legal claim to those scans and could get the authorities to compel OCC not to post them. It sounds like OCC's just doing a polite thing and respecting a former member's request, regardless of whether they need to. If there is a copyright claim by the copyright holder(s) on the photos that were scanned (which could be part of that member's reason for his request), that would be a separate issue entirely.