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Copyright and access threats in the humanities
Richard Byrne, Speakers at Convocation on Humanities Warn About Privatization of Materials, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15, 2006 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt:
For more on "holes in our history", see Linda Kerber's article in the May 19 issue. Kerber focuses on the threats represented by three recent developments: You may have read that the National Archives and Records Administration has allowed some federal agencies to withdraw declassified documents from public view. That the Smithsonian Institution has signed an agreement with Showtime Networks to create an on-demand cable-television channel. That the Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to search the papers of the late investigative journalist Jack Anderson. But have you thought about what those controversies mean taken together? Historians view them as three serious threats to the integrity of access to documents and artifacts of national importance. |