[WorkingDead]

> ...digital repatriation of cultural heritage...

So basically the university is going to block access to a valuable publicly owned academic intellectual property due to some sort of social guilt from the research team and may even turn over partial ownership of that publicly owned property.

[AstralStorm]

They can probably be sued to release the originals so that someone else can reproduce the process. Albeit laws governing museums are a bit murky.