Although several American museums have grudgingly relinquished works identified by outsiders as having been stolen, Mr. Steinberg said, "to this day no museum has yet identified a single work of art in their holdings which they have announced they were turning over".
In the end Ms. Ziff persuaded him to relinquish the work — "I suppose one could describe me as tenacious," she said — while also securing a promise from the photography center to allow the filmmaker to use Capa images for a documentary he would like to make about the survival of the negatives, their journey to Mexico and his family's role in saving them.
This season Mr. Levine has relinquished the work to Valery Gergiev.
Eventually, she began managing more than a dozen buildings in the neighborhood, relinquishing the work gradually, and ending it last year.
He refused to relinquish control of his work, and so denied his collaborator Steve Wozniak his due recognition.
In addition, two Andersen executives will relinquish their licenses to work as certified public accountants in Arizona.
As the critic Albert Murray first pointed out, though, what Baldwin decried in Stowe and Wright he could not relinquish in his own work.
Through her use of mirrors, Golden does relinquish authority over her works, but then again, she does this anyway.
(In a 2007 agreement with the Italian government, it relinquished 40 such works to Italy).
Even though copyright law suggests that works by one author cannot be considered works-for-hire, many book publishers insist that some writers relinquish their copyrights and accept work-for-hire contracts.
