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The Trump administration called detainee art U.S. government property and halted most releases. Lawyers never mounted an intellectual property case.
The prison imposed the ban in late 2017, after an art exhibit in New York called “Ode to the Sea” struck a nerve at the Pentagon. It featured seascapes, model ships and other works by current and former Guantánamo detainees, and its website offered an email address for people “interested in purchasing art from these artists.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/us/politics/guantanamo-art.html
The prison imposed the ban in late 2017, after an art exhibit in New York called “Ode to the Sea” struck a nerve at the Pentagon. It featured seascapes, model ships and other works by current and former Guantánamo detainees, and its website offered an email address for people “interested in purchasing art from these artists.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/us/politics/guantanamo-art.html