"Many of the lands are under customary arrangement and depending on the specific area where the land is being acquired the specific customary arrangements in that area would apply,"
VOA: standard.2009.08.23
The result is that it is difficult to maintain a copyright over data, because only a specificarrangement or selection of the data will be protected.
The collection is owned by the Barnes Foundation, established in 1922 under a legal arrangement called an indenture of trust, with the specific stipulation that everything was always to remain exactly as it was in Dr. Barnes's lifetime.