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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It will depend on who publishes it and how.
For example, the manuscripts could be published with commentary by university professors in an anthology with rights assigned to the university.
(Think of annotated editions of classics with full copyright owned by the annotator.)
Until it is first publicly distributed, the "authorship" of record is undetermined and subject to gaming.
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As far as I know, the annotator only owns the copyright for the annotations.
If nobody has read it, the custodians could strip her name off it and distribute it as a new work written by Horace G. Smedley. I always wondered what Horace ever did with that time machine he was working on.