That's interesting. In my country an artist's right to prevent false attribution of authorship is one of the so called moral rights covered by copyright law. I don't know how it works in the USA. Where the artist is dead, and assuming any copyright has expired, who has "the right to the name"? Don Sweet ----- Original Message ----- From: Carlileb@xxxxxxx To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 2:40 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth ... In a message dated 7/29/2010 1:23:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: As there would therefore not be much point in starting a court case over the authenticity of these negatives, I fail to see why these people are talking like Melvin Belli. If the Adams estate owns the right to the name, there certainly is cause for a dispute.