The Digital Library Federation’s Legal and Ethical Considerations for Born-Digital Access blog series has a new post! Donor Agreement - the latest installment of the blog series, provides an indepth look at how donor agreements play a critical role when providing access to born digital materials.

Legal and Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to Born-Digital Collections: Donor Agreement https://www.diglib.org/legal-and-ethical-considerations-for-providing-access-to-born-digital-collections-donor-agreement/

Check out the posts so far and stay tuned for more!

Legal and Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to Born-Digital Collections: Getting Started

https://www.diglib.org/legal-and-ethical-considerations-for-providing-access-to-born-digital-collections-getting-started/ 

Tips and tricks that apply to all types of collections and restrictions. While each restriction case you encounter may be slightly different, there are several upstream activities to keep in mind.

Legal and Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to Born-Digital Collections: Attorney-Client Privilege

https://www.diglib.org/legal-and-ethical-considerations-for-providing-access-to-born-digital-collections-attorney-client-privilege/ 

A primer on managing content subject to attorney-client privilege in born-digital archives.

Legal and Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to Born-Digital Collections: Copyright

https://www.diglib.org/legal-and-ethical-considerations-for-providing-access-to-born-digital-collections-copyright/

A primer on managing content subject to attorney-client privilege in born-digital archives.

The full text of “Legal and Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to Born-Digital Collections” can be accessed here: https://osf.io/ketr7/. The primary authors of this community-developed resource are Jessika Drmacich, Kate Dundon, Jess Farrell, Christina Velazquez Fidler, Camille Tyndall Watson, and Hannah Wang.

On behalf of the LDD subgroup of DLF BDAWG,