Through the practice of editing culturally and historically relevant documents, textual scholars are regularly faced with legal restrictions to their scholarly endeavours — including both copyright and non-copyright restrictions such as the privacy and moral rights of authors.
In practice, these added difficulties and legal uncertainties cause funding agencies, libraries, and archives to prioritise the digitisation and publication of less legally problematic materials — which threatens to cause a bias in our output as a research field. In an effort to move forward as a research community, the European Society for Textual Scholarship ESTS is organising an online symposium on Legal Issues in Textual Scholarship to address these obstacles, and reflect on the legal restrictions that may affect textual scholarship in the analog and digital paradigms.
We will start the day by exposing some of the problems textual scholars are facing today when they work with copyrighted materials, establishing a legal framework for our discussion, and examining the impact generative AI may have on the field — now, and in the foreseeable future.
After lunch, we will continue with a series of shorter papers by authors sharing their professional experiences dealing with copyright holders and their heirs, digitising cultural heritage materials in research and pedagogical contexts, and the use of born-digital source materials. Finally, we will end the day with reflections on the Copyright Act itself, and on how we may navigate these restrictions, and work within the legal boundaries that are set for us. Registration is open until the 22nd of October at the following URL.
For more information on the symposium, including short introductions for all speakers and abstracts for their talks, please visit the event's webpage:. Diese Anzeige wird unter den Bedingungen der Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4. Wout Dillen, Elsa Pereira, « Legal Issues in Textual Scholarship », Fachtagung , Calenda , Veröffentlicht am Donnerstag, Sitemap Über uns Eine Veranstaltung vorschlagen Credits.
