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Artist rights, rehabilitation and return

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What an archive owes someone whose legal matter is closed. A resolved case is part of a life, not the whole of it, and a record that leads with it — or that keeps a settled matter permanently at the top — is making an editorial judgement it has no basis for. The music is the subject; the disposition is recorded, dated and left in proportion.

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Legal struggle is not the whole biography

Legal and incarceration records should be documented only when public, sourced and proportionate; artist pages should not reduce musicians to court cases.

Stance: music biography vs legal sensationalism