Ultimately history has proven that copyright owners can't be trusted to preserve their own IP and preservation should be entirely legal.
Ultimately history has proven that copyright owners can't be trusted to preserve their own IP and preservation should be entirely legal.
Those involved in the creation of the art can write a contract that stops it being ruined by future owners. When the Bobs sold their rights to Back to the Future they added terms to protect the brand. I know of one time where they intervened to stop a 3D conversion that Universal wanted. (Personally, I think 3D conversion can work well, e.g. Titanic, but other times it is monstrous, e.g. Star Wars Ep 1)