[Leica] Stolen Steve McCurry photos

[Ken Carney]

Don't know.  If I buy a chain saw in a pawn shop and it turns out to be 
stolen...?  I'm sure there is a protocol for that somewhere.

On 6/3/2015 8:06 PM, Robert Adler wrote:
> Hmmm. I would think that the rightful owner is the one it is stolen from,
> no matter where it ends up. Ignorance is no excuse: why would art be
> different from say a car? Someone steals my car, someone buys it from the
> thief unknowing it's stolen, so do I, the victim loose my car?
> Or am I missing something...
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> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
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>> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/famed-photographer-asst-stole-650g-worth-prints-da-article-1.2244006
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>> I wonder what happens when a collector buys a stolen print like this?  I'm
>> guessing the collector can keep it so long as he/she was not complicit.
>> Far from the same facts, but we have an interesting case going on in
>> Oklahoma now, where OU has a Pissaro painting stolen from the owner during
>> WWII.
>>
>> http://www.oudaily.com/news/ou-museum-holds-pieces-of-art-with-wwii-nazi-connections/article_f4911dfe-654e-11e4-80ac-0017a43b2370.html
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>> Ken
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