That would require someone claiming to own the photos, which would likely hurt that person quite a bit.

Hunter Biden left his laptop at the repair shop and never paid for the repairs. After waiting the legally required 90 days, the repair shop became the rightful owner of the laptop and its contents.

Once they owned those photos, they had every right to publish them or do whatever they wanted.

The least the press could ask VP Biden would be, "will you pledge that your son will not be involved in any sensitive discussions or allowed access to any sensitive material?"

Even if there were no corrupt actions at all, Hunter Biden represents every kind of HUMINT leverage imaginable.

So if I sell my laptop that still has some photos on it, the buyer would own the copyright over those photos because they own the laptop?

If I deleted the photos from the laptop, but they used a recovery tool to restore them from the disk, would they still own the copyright then?

What if I have the same photo on two different USB drives, and I sell those to two different people, who owns the copyright then?

That doesn’t seem right. Copyright is not generally attached to a physical medium. You don’t lose copyright by losing ownership of the physical medium that holds a copy of the photos/source code/etc.

> So if I sell my laptop that still has some photos on it, the buyer would own the copyright over those photos because they own the laptop?

No, since you made an agreement to sell the laptop, and only the laptop.

> Copyright is not generally attached to a physical medium.

That's correct. But it can be transferred to satisfy a lein; depends on the fine print the repair shop has in their contract.

The answer would be, of course, are you fucking crazy? And that would be the end of it.

That's not how copyright works.

My understanding is that it is Gnews that is publishing these photos, not NY Post. NY Post is publishing screenshots of emails.

Not true but I'm not going to link to prove my point.

Oh yes, you're referring to the pictures of Hunter with a crack pipe in his mouth and things like that. You're correct. I took that to be just proof that they had the laptop. Everyone knows that Hunter has a crack addiction problem.

I think I totally forgot about that because of the censored sex tapes and nudes being published by Gnews which are way more salacious.