I started looking at this question today: "What are the rights of ownership?"

Ownership differs from copyright.

Sabloff, J.A. Scientific research, museum collections, and the rights of ownership. SCI ENG ETHICS 5, 347–354 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-999-0025-6

Hodder, Ian. “Cultural Heritage Rights: From Ownership and Descent to Justice and Well-Being.” Anthropological Quarterly 83, no. 4 (2010): 861–82. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40890842.

Kirsten Foss & Nicolai Foss (2001) Assets, Attributes and Ownership, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 8:1, 19-37, DOI: 10.1080/13571510151075233

Zuckerman, H. A. (1988). Introduction: Intellectual Property and Diverse Rights of Ownership in Science. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 13(1–2), 7–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243988013001-203

Caronni, G. (1995). Assuring Ownership Rights for Digital Images. In: Verläßliche IT-Systeme. DUD-Fachbeiträge. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-91094-3_16

15 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 759 (1973-1974)
Rights of Ownership or Rights of Use--The Need for a New Conceptual Basis for Land Use Policy https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/wmlr15&div=38&id=&page=

https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/779730

https://books.google.fr/books?id=QLOvDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=library+records+ownership&source=bl&ots=BtkD7gmt3s&sig=ACfU3U0PiYkMUSP2fAbvHCCR3cmxBqWPiA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiS3Yez7IzxAhWy5eAKHdqhA1kQ6AEwJXoECBMQAw#v=onepage&q=library%20records%20ownership&f=false

Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessmentbody

http://web.archive.org/web/20210301072826/https://library.ca.gov/services/to-libraries/ca-revealed/ownership/

Note: this is interesting: http://www.helix.dnares.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2346-2351.897.pdf

32 Ariz. L. Rev. 739 (1990)
The Rights of Indigenous Peoples as Collective Group Rights https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/arz32&div=34&id=&page=

Oboler, Regina Smith (1977) The economic rights of Nandi women. Working paper no. 328, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/1201

35 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1227 (2011-2012)
Hired to Invent vs. Work Made for Hire: Resolving the Inconsistency among Rights of Corporate Personhood: Authorship, and Inventorship
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/sealr35&div=47&id=&page=

Lost Lands?: (land) Rights of the San in Botswana and the Legal Concept of... https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=98dXvUkLjXoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA9&dq=%22rights+of+ownership%22+-%22property+rights%22&ots=Yg5kxp66SQ&sig=VANWd__ZoI2e-UaOnkrzFJn5im4#v=onepage&q=%22rights%20of%20ownership%22%20-%22property%20rights%22&f=false

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315588353-8/reforming-swedish-sami-legislation-survey-arguments-bertil-bengtsson

Related to:
Pierscionek, B.K. What is presumed when we presume consent?. BMC Med Ethics 9, 8 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-9-8

In addition to these issues of ownership,

OCAP Principles directly point out that ownership is a key issue. https://fnigc.ca/ocap-training/

OCAP is a set of principles: ownership, control, access, and possession of data within a collaborative relationship between the researcher(s) and First Nations people and communities.

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/using-ocap-and-iq-frameworks-address-history-trauma-indigenous-health-research/2020-10#:~:text=OCAP%20is%20a%20set%20of,First%20Nations%20people%20and%20communities.

Ownership also impacts what archives can and can not do with modern data https://isidore.science/document/10670/1.0fv98j

The linked article is not well referenced, but it does have an lot of detail dates.
https://photoclaim.com/when-photography-copyright-started-the-origins-of-copyright/

Again a nice timeline but not really great references for scholarly purposes.

• https://www.copyright.gov/timeline/timeline_19th_century.html
• https://www.copyright.gov/timeline/timeline_18th_century.html

I was trying to find out when images (paintings, photographs, etc.) were first eligible for copyright protections. Maybe some of this is set through case-law.

In addition to this question, a second question exists: when was copyright and the public domain established?

Tyler T. Ochoa, Origins and Meanings of the Public Domain , 28 U. Dayton L. Rev. 215 (2002),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/facpubs/80

https://www.belmont.edu/legal/pdf/Public-Domain-Chart.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright

Welcome to the Public Domain

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/05/31/us-copyright-history-1923-1964

others
Ashton Williams, Shockingly Evil: The Cruel Invasive Appropriation and Exploitation of Victims' Rights of Publicity in the True Crime Genre, 27 J. Intell. Prop. L. 303 (2020).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/jipl/vol27/iss2/6

Peter K. Yu, Ten Common Questions about Intellectual Property and Human Rights, 23 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 709 (2007).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/386

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/scholcom/208/