How is it a loss to black people if they end up in the public domain?


>>They are currently in black hands and see how that is
>working
>>out? I think the most important thing is that images are
>>accessible to everyone and that might not necessarily be in
>>black hands. In fact the best scenario is that no one owns
>>them and they are in the public domain and everyone has
>access
>>to them.
>
>
>Good luck with that. I'm apparently the most unrealistic
>person in this thread and I'm not naive enough to think that
>they should or will be public domain. And its clear that
>whoever is actually running the company is not making a
>decision based on protecting the legacy of the Johnson
>Publishing Company...they are interested in money...and unless
>this ends up with a Black institution (and I am assuming that
>a Black institution that can afford this collection and has
>the willingness to purchase it is equipped to handle the
>financial and logistical responsibility that comes with
>it)...we lost.


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