Team -1 keeps saying in their defense that they obtained the permission of the owner of the prints they used. How?

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I was under the impression that individuals weren’t legally allowed to own a print of a film… they technically are owned by the studio. And if a studio did decide to let someone own a print, that print would still be just for private use. All copyrights and distribution rights would still be retained by the studios and distribution companies… and making a scan of the print would be a violation of those laws (very much like ripping a movie you have on DVD and putting up on a torrent site). It just doesn’t matter if you get the permission of the guy who is in possession of the print.

I realize that fan-edits and reconstructions in general are a bit of a grey area, but this isn’t either of those… and there’s nothing grey about the area that it falls in.

My apologies if this has been covered already, but I was just skimming though this, and it seems that Team -1 keeps either ignoring or forgetting this fact.

And I must admit that it pains me slightly to say this, because the team did do a great job on the scan… but that’s not what this is about.