Said manuscript is part of the deceased's estate... if not specifically mentioned with required actions then you are both legally and morally free to do with it as you wish, likewise the diary. If specifically mentioned with an instruction to destroy either or both then comes the difficult choice... ignore the will (legally and morally dodgy), challenge it in court (put the decision on someone else's shoulders but legally fine...) or carry out the final instructions...
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Originally Posted by GlennD
So legally speaking, if I find a novel manuscript in my grandfather's things, and he never even told any of us that he wrote it, do I have the legal right to publish it? Or maybe his diary - a document that was obviously intended to be private? (clearly ethics and laws are two different questions)
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