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Originally Posted by Nerwen
(...) Again, from my point of view the possible ethical violation here lies in giving permission and then withdrawing it for no good reason, wasting the authors' time and effort in the process.
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The Estate notes that ADC agreed not to publish the letters or paraphrase them, and then did the latter anyway. I'm wondering why anyone was given access to this material in the first place -- mistake on someone's part? Did party A assume something party B had not actually agreed to?
It seems possible that this material was provided as research to generally help with an accurate description of familial relationships --
without however using it in a very specific way, such as publication or close paraphrasing, noting the Estate's statement includes...
'... that were reproduced virtually verbatim.'