Legal Issues in Textual Scholarship: symposium
ALLC RSS 2023-10-17
Summary:
Legal Issues in Textual Scholarship: symposium
The European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) is organising the online symposium Legal Issues in Textual Scholarship (27 October 2023, via Zoom) to reflect on the legal restrictions that affect textual scholarship in the analogue and digital paradigms. For more information on the symposium, including short introductions for all speakers and abstracts for their talks, please visit the event’s webpage:
https://sites.google.com/view/estslegalissues
This event is free, but registration is required to obtain access to the Zoom link. Please register before 22 October.
Programme
(All times CET)
10:00-10:20 | Opening Remarks
10:20-12:00 | Panel I
Chair: Elli Bleeker
10:20 | Dirk Van Hulle (University of Oxford): From the Golden Age of the Literary Manuscript to the Ice Age of Copyright
11:00 | Paweł Kamocki (CLARIN ERIC): The Times and How They Are a-Changin’. Textual Scholarship and Copyright Law Today and in the AI-Generated Future
12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 | Panel II
Chair: Hande Özkayagan Prändl (University of Vienna)
13:30 | Elsa Pereira (University of Lisbon): Authors’ Heirs Obstructing Textual Scholarship in Portugal
14:00 | Maia Ninidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University): Digitisation of the Archives Belonging to the Heirs of the Classic Georgian Authors
14:30 | Veijo Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki): A Double-Edged Sword: Digital Forensics and Research Permissions in the Study of Born-Digital Manuscripts
15:00 | Wout Dillen (University of Borås): As Open as Possible, as Closed as Necessary. Navigating Legal Issues in a Course on Digitising (and Publishing) Cultural Heritage Materials
15:30-15:45 | Coffee Break
15:45-17:30 | Panel III
Chair: Wout Dillen (University of Borås)
15:45 | Wim Van Mierlo (Loughborough University): William Wordsworth, the Death of the Author, and the 1842 English Copyright Act
16:30 | Fatiha Idmhand (University of Poitiers / ITEM – CNRS/ENS): Manuscripts of Contemporary Authors and Copyright: Exploring the Possibilities?
17:30 | Closing Remarks