Harvard required artists to forfeit rights to the slave images they viewed

Evidence

That was how I came across a paper written by Yxta Maya Murray, a law professor at Loyola Marymount University, that explored the plight of Carrie Mae Weems, an African American artist who had visited Harvard’s Peabody Museum to see the slave daguerreotypes in the early 1990s. Weems signed a restrictive contract agreeing not to capture, record, or use the likenesses of the enslaved men and women, but was so moved by what she saw that she photographed them during her visit anyway and used those images in her art exhibit titled From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 655

Categorization

• QUESTION: Weems signed a no-capture contract yet photographed the daguerreotypes anyway and exhibited them — worth chasing how and whether Harvard or the Peabody ever enforced it.