Re: Copyright in Personal Letters

On 7/30/97, Bob Cumbow <cumbr[_at_]perkinscoie.com> wrote:
>
> To the best of my knowledge, the law has pretty uniformly held that
> previously unpublished letters may not be published without the
> permission of the letter-writer or his estate.

     From a practical pov, what would you do in a situation where the letter writer died many years ago (let's say late 50s or early 60s), the estate was settled and property distributed among the many heirs, and now one of the descendants (in possession of the original letter) wants to give permission but some of the other heirs do not (they feel it would be a violation of their own privacy for family history to be published)... Can I assume there is no easy answer?

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