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Access, Computational Analysis, and Fair Use in the Digitized Nineteenth- Century Press
- Author(s):
- Paul Fyfe (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English, TC Digital Humanities, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
- Subject(s):
- Digital preservation, Copyright, Periodicals, Open access publishing
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Digital archiving, Book digitization, Open access
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/1t0e-ex11
- Abstract:
- This essay looks to the near history of copyright, commercially licensed resources, and fair use that shapes digital scholarship on nineteenth-century periodicals today. Using the digitization of British Library newspapers as a case study, I demonstrate how arguments about access to public domain materials do not fully account for the complex international landscape of rights and exceptions for digital periodicals resources. This landscape is also changing with the emergence of legal exceptions for computational research methods like text and data mining. These methods may point to new forms of scholarly communication, particularly "transformative uses" that work around the restrictive vestiges of copyright law. Ultimately, this essay claims that scholars need to understand the changing parameters of copyright, not simply as a set of rules that affects their day-to-day work but as an opportunity to shape the law and advocate for creative forms of research and scholarly communication.
- Notes:
- Part of a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review on Copyright Law and Publishing Practice in the Nineteenth-Century Press, edited by Will Slauter. The author of the article has retained copyright.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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