Regarding The Rights of the Molotov Man, I could not tell which side is correct since I think both sides have their own reasonings. But for me, I actually think that the Molotov Man does not belong to Joy or Sarah, it belongs to the Molotov Man himself. Only he could understand the moment either within the context or outside of the background story. So, I don’t think the reasoning provided by both Joy and Sarah could define the copyright of the photo.
I know that there are many reproductions of images, and I think that when an image is made public, it could be reproduced by others to create new meanings. However, I still believe in copyright fees to the author, and it should not be dated by a time of seventy years or fourteen years after production. It should be paid either to the author or a fund by the author. I don’t believe in paying the heirs of the authors because they should be benefited by something their predecessors created. I think that the photo is Sarah’s but there are not many claims by her to the history that she is referring, I think that part should belong to the people who actually experienced the entirety of the revolution or part of the revolution not as a reporter or a photographer but as a local.