> It strikes me as a rather tortured reading of this that makes it a limitation of the artists' rights, rather than the publishers' I'm personally not entirely

> It strikes me as a rather tortured reading of this that makes it a limitation of the artists' rights, rather than the publishers' I'm personally not entirely against the law as it stands, and I agree that publishers have a great deal of power to define the terms of an agreement they can force on an artist. That said, I don't think it's so tortured to think someone really might not want her heirs to meddle with her license grants to a university or museum.