Reminiscing

I've been looking through old photos. Here's one from a lttle while ago, scanned onto the system - no date, no location - but I know it is Mrs Soup, Christine and Peter (their dad).

We have lots of old photos, not sure who many of the people are or where they were, or when. They are disppearing in time. The recent discussion on who owns "bought" digital music/books/etc illustrates the increasingly transitory nature of some items. When you die, does your Kindle library die with you? Who should have access to you on-line files? And if your forget who is on a portrait photo, it's meaning is lost, does it revert to being just a piece of paper?