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Session: Archival Extortion? (Session 107)
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Session Description in SAA Program
[edit] Speakers and Papers:
Mark Greene, Chair, University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center
Susan Maxwell Bielstein, University of Chicago Press
Cathy Henderson, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas
Robert Spoo, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin
[edit] Comments, Discussions and Further Information
Good session. Interesting. Stimulating (sometimes agitating) discussion. The session description: "A user of archives and museums, an archivist, and a lawyer present three different perspectives on the limits of physical and copyright ownership" is accurate, but I would like far more discussion of physical ownership and the contracts institutions impose on users when providing reproductions, and less about copyright, which we hear about every year. Perhaps a future follow-up session on licensing and contractual use rights (and the ethical & practical arguments behind this) in which the word "copyright" is completely banned! I'm envisioning a big buzzer bleeping out the word every time it is uttered. Copyright is important, but every discussion I hear that tries to go toward the contractual approach commonly used in libraries and archives gets sucked back into, or impossibly confused with, Copyright. There are important ethical and practical discussions to be had about public domain materials and licensing agreements that do not assert copyrights, per se, that I think we failed to explore adequately in this morning's session.
This session was summarized by one or more Visual Materials Section member(s). The summary is available via the Section website:http://www.lib.lsu.edu/SAA/2007SessRevs.html


