
From Grace Lile, an interesting posting on "Archival access: ethics, rights, obligations" in which she refers back to the June conversation on archival use and storytelling, launched by Rick Prelinger on his blog.Lile also notes, "I am still working my way through Rand Jimerson’s excellent A...

Just released today: Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work -- a new report from American University's Center for Social Media...

Archival Storytelling Fans on this page are from the US, the Netherlands, Philippines, and Spain -- wow! How are archival issues being addressed globally?

From Kenn: Currently, I’m co-producing a two-hour history of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) for PBS with Paradigm Productions in Berkeley. ...

From noted archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger, a challenge to the conventions of historical documentary storytelling, and two proposals:....The first is easy. Let's put original, unedited archival material out in the world in such a way that it competes with documentaries......

Attorney and intellectual property expert Peter Jaszi (featured in Archival Storytelling) is now blogging as the IP Scholar for the University of Maryland University College's Center for Intellectual Property -- see ©ollectanea for his posts on fair use in secondary and higher education and more!

From The Boston Globe (May 4, 2009) an article about WGBH in Boston and the challenge (and expense) of rights clearance -- http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2009/05/03/to_put_shows_online_the_price_is_rights/

According to an article by Eric Pfanner in the April 27, 2009 The New York Times, a "court in Sweden on Friday convicted four men linked to the notorious Internet file-sharing service The Pirate Bay of violating copyright law, handing the music and movie industries a high-profile victory in their...

Orphans: A Film Symposium willl be held April 7-10, 2010, at the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center; www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/orphans7/. "Orphans 7 will focus on transnational and global issues. How have moving images circulated across national and other boundaries...

Starting today (April 13), the five-part series We Shall Remain from American Experience. Episode 2, Tecumseh's Vision, was produced and written by Ric Burns (interviewed in Documentary Storytelling) and directed by Chris Eyre and Ric Burns...








