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Best wishes
Merisa Martinez
Research Fellow
Swedish School of Library and Information Science
University of Borås, Sweden
Dear colleagues,
We are excited to share our finalised programme for
the online symposium on Legal
Issues in Textual Scholarship that will take place at the end of next month (27 October 2023)! This event is free,
but registration
is required to obtain access to the event’s Zoom link. Please register before 22 October.
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.
We hope to see you there!
All the best,
Wout Dillen and Elsa Pereira, Organizing Committee
Programme
(All times CET)
10:00-10:20 | Opening Remarks
10:20-12:00 | Panel I
12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 | Panel II
15:30-15:45 | Coffee Break
15:45-17:30 | Panel
III
17:30 | Closing Remarks
About the Event
This online symposium constitutes the first in a series of satellite events organised by the European
Society for Textual Scholarship outside of the society’s annual conference. It is co-hosted by the Universities of Borås and Lisbon,
and supported by HUMINFRA.
Best wishes,
Wout Dillen
Senior Lecturer
Swedish School of Library and Information Science
University of Borås, Sweden
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