i'm torn here

while i'm (sort of) happy he won his case, i believe this document (like aretha's hat) BELONG ON DISPLAY IN A MUSEUM somewhere. they should be accessible by ALL peeps, not just one private citizen. the document (along with aretha's hat) BELONG TO ALL OF US

Court: Va. man owns 1776 copy of Declaration
Tech entrepreneur purchased document from a book dealer for $475,000
By Michael Felberbaum
RICHMOND, Va. - A rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday. Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book dealer in 2001 for $475,000. But the state of Maine claimed it belongs to the town of Wiscasset, where it was kept by the town clerk in 1776.

Virginia's high court said that a lower court did not err in its ruling in Adams' favor because Maine didn't prove the document was ever an official town record and that Adams had superior title to the print.

Adams' attorney, Robert K. Richardson, has argued that Wiscasset's town clerk copied the text of the Declaration of Independence into the town's record books on Nov. 10, 1776. It's that transcription, not the document upon which it was based, that is the official town record, Richardson said..........