Actually Pecan, the finders may NOT win simply because dey find it. Ah was thinking about dis from a intellectual property stand point and in order tuh publish de works, dey would have tuh get permission from de author. Since de author dead, den is de estate. Ah doh have all de details of de case but in order tuh claim ownership of someting yuh find, yuh have tuh prove dat yuh try tuh reach de owner tuh return it and was unsuccessful. me eh know if dey do dat.
Is like when yuh find big money and yuh turn it een tuh de police. Yuh could only get it back if nobody eh claim it.
It have some latin word fuh it but ah go have tuh do some checking. Cyar remember what it is.