Hi all, I’m looking for some advice.
Our organization was given a collection of papers by a living author in 2009, with specific instructions that the author would “prefer no use be made of these personal papers in (their) lifetime”. In our contract, the wording is thus: “papers will not be made public until after (the author’s) death”.
Our question is this: does this mean that they cannot be on display, say, behind glass in a locked case? Or is it ok to display as long as no one has actual, touching access? We have several opinions in on this one…
Thanks in advance.