Society of American Archivists annual meeting August 2011 Reality, Risk, and Rights Rights, Risk, and Reality Beyond “Undue Diligence” in Rights Analysis for Digitization

Society of American Archivists annual meeting August 2011 Between a rock and a hard place / Flickr gillesgonthier / CC BY 2.0

Society of American Archivists annual meeting August 2011 Reality Code of ethics: provide access to collections & upholding the law Increasing expectation for digitized collections Budgets not increasing Yet again, no one has been sued.

Society of American Archivists annual meeting August 2011 Tyler Jumping off of a Cliff/ Flickr micahmacallen / CC BY-SA 2.0

Society of American Archivists annual meeting August 2011 Risk “Just say no.” Risk to scholarship and meeting mission “Just say yes” Risk of legal action, risk to reputation Say maybe Adopt a risk management approach

Society of American Archivists annual meeting August 2011 Copyright license choice/ Flickr opensourceway / CC BY-SA 2.0

Society of American Archivists annual meeting August 2011 Rights US Copyright law is what it is Privacy and publicity rights also need to be considered Look to fair use Establish a “community of practice”

Society of American Archivists annual meeting August 2011 WIP: a community of risk management?

Society of American Archivists annual meeting August 2011 Are we at a turning point? End of the road/ Flickr / CC BY 2.0

Society of American Archivists annual meeting August 2011 Our speakers Jean DrydenPeter Hirtle Barbara Aikens