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diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc b/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc
index 028f73dc..83785465 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc
@@ -1198,6 +1198,14 @@ void
QPDFWriter::enqueueObject(QPDFObjectHandle object)
{
if (object.isIndirect()) {
+ // This owner check should really be done for all objects, not
+ // just indirect objects. As of the time of the release of
+ // qpdf 11, it is known that there are cases of direct objects
+ // from other files getting copied into multiple QPDF objects.
+ // This definitely happens in the page splitting code. If we
+ // were to implement strong checks to prevent objects from
+ // having multiple owners, once that was complete phased in,
+ // this check could be moved outside the if statement.
if (object.getOwningQPDF() != &(this->m->pdf)) {
QTC::TC("qpdf", "QPDFWriter foreign object");
throw std::logic_error(