Legal Issues in Digital Archives

This one-day course covers legal issues specific to archives of digital material. The workshop examines the most common legal issues around electronic records including: copyright, digital rights management, acquiring and securing rights for particular uses of records, basic privacy issues, and providing access to sensitive materials. You’ll look at the basic text of a number of federal statutes, but most of your time will be spent examining both hypothetical and real cases. The focus of the day will be on how to think through and identify options for resolving the most common legal issues around a particular set of electronic records.