31 Oct
2022
31 Oct
'22
2:20 p.m.
On Oct 31, 2022, at 06:57, Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I donated a few items to LCM. I was told that they didn’t do long-term loans when I
brought that up on one item.
The paperwork for the first item was minimal, basically just an acknowledgment of receipt.
The paperwork for the last item was more complicated and included an agreement that
allowed them to do lots of things with the item that I wasn’t comfortable with but that at
the time I trusted them not to do without good reason.
alan
On Oct 31, 2022, at 12:13 AM, Tomasz Rola via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Unless you gave something to them with conditions, that's unlikely to work.
Normally, when you give a thing to another person, that person is free to do with it what
he wants. For example, if someone doesn't like a birthday present, he can throw it
away, or give it to someone else, and you have nothing to say about that.
And on top of that, various courts that don't like paying attention to law and
contract have in the past allowed museums to go against the explicit written restrictions
of gifts made to them. My conclusion from all that is: if you want any chance of
controlling what happens with your stuff, don't donate it -- lend it instead on a
long-term loan agreement.
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 12:34:29PM -0400, Paul
Koning via cctalk wrote:
[...]
Even if it doesn't reopen, I'd hope that its collection would not
simply be scrapped. I imagine a lot of people here would be
interested in parts of it. I'm one of them...
If I was a donator, I would now be writing an rather officially
looking letter to let them know, that if they have intention to misuse
my donation then I have intention to have it back. paul