Category: Legal Issues

Informed Accessioning: Questions to Ask After the Interview

Informed Accessioning: Questions to Ask After the Interview By Doug Boyd  Overview I am, and continue to be, a strong advocate for effectively using the Internet for enhancing access to our rich collections of archived oral histories that have long languished on the physical and virtual shelves. I developed OHMS (the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) as an impulse …

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What Do You Think You Own

What Do You Think You Own, or Legal/Ethical Concerns by Troy Reeves The title for this essay comes from the “question of the Oral History in the Digital Age symposium.” That meeting, in November 2010, brought together all of the key players in Oral History in the Digital Age, the multi-year, Institute of Museum and …

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Protecting IP Rights to Life Histories

Case Study: Protecting IP Rights to Life Histories by Peggy Bulger Director, American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress Michael Taft Head, American Folklife Center Archive Folklorists, ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and other ethnographers have been collecting the stories and life histories of their subjects on audio and visual media since the dawn of recorded sound. …

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