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178 · Representative Documents: Managing Digital Assets UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA Preservation Plan for Digital Images http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/index.php/Preservation Preservation -UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/index.php/Preservation[8/7/13 10:45:28 AM] toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link discussion view source history Log in /create account Preservation Contents [hide] 1 University of Alabama Libraries Digital Services 1.1 Preservation Plan for Digital Materials 1.2 Division of Digital Content 1.3 Committed to sustain access 1.4 Migration Support 1.5 Emulation Support 1.6 Bit-Level Preservation 1.7 Annual Review 1.8 Long Term Retention 1.9 Local Backups 1.10 Descriptive Metadata University of Alabama Libraries Digital Services Digital content is inherently fragile. It is easily corrupted, damaged, changed, or deleted. Hence, access to important digital content must be controlled. If what we are protecting is the historical record, change to the original content must be prevented. Even running a virus checker across content can change it. Opening a file can change it. Moving a file from one media to another can change it. How do we protect and preserve our unique, fragile, historical documents? How do we make them accessible, both today, and in the future? The whole point of preservation is support of long-term access. Incoming digital content adds another layer of issues to these two questions: 1. We may not know who or what has touched this content before we receive it, so we may be unable to guarantee its authenticity 2. It is likely not yet in archival format, and may not be of archival quality 3. It may not be in formats or on media with which we are familiar, or for which we have hardware or software 4. It may contain information that needs to be redacted or controlled, due to intellectual property rights, copyright, privacy issues, computer viruses, or other issues 5. It may contain information the donor did not intend for us to have 6. We may have little or no information about the content. Read more about our processes for incoming digital content here: Managing_Incoming_Digital_Content Preservation Plan for Digital Materials The University of Alabama (UA) Libraries preserve selected digital content for long-term access support. Our highest level of attention and support is given to content selected for digitization from UA Libraries Special Collections. Other research materials are assigned preservation strategies at appropriate levels based on file formats and perceived needs of our designated audience, the faculty and students of the University of Alabama. article navigation Main Page Community portal Current events Recent changes Random page Help Donations search Go Search
178 · Representative Documents: Managing Digital Assets UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA Preservation Plan for Digital Images http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/index.php/Preservation Preservation -UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/index.php/Preservation[8/7/13 10:45:28 AM] toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link discussion view source history Log in /create account Preservation Contents [hide] 1 University of Alabama Libraries Digital Services 1.1 Preservation Plan for Digital Materials 1.2 Division of Digital Content 1.3 Committed to sustain access 1.4 Migration Support 1.5 Emulation Support 1.6 Bit-Level Preservation 1.7 Annual Review 1.8 Long Term Retention 1.9 Local Backups 1.10 Descriptive Metadata University of Alabama Libraries Digital Services Digital content is inherently fragile. It is easily corrupted, damaged, changed, or deleted. Hence, access to important digital content must be controlled. If what we are protecting is the historical record, change to the original content must be prevented. Even running a virus checker across content can change it. Opening a file can change it. Moving a file from one media to another can change it. How do we protect and preserve our unique, fragile, historical documents? How do we make them accessible, both today, and in the future? The whole point of preservation is support of long-term access. Incoming digital content adds another layer of issues to these two questions: 1. We may not know who or what has touched this content before we receive it, so we may be unable to guarantee its authenticity 2. It is likely not yet in archival format, and may not be of archival quality 3. It may not be in formats or on media with which we are familiar, or for which we have hardware or software 4. It may contain information that needs to be redacted or controlled, due to intellectual property rights, copyright, privacy issues, computer viruses, or other issues 5. It may contain information the donor did not intend for us to have 6. We may have little or no information about the content. Read more about our processes for incoming digital content here: Managing_Incoming_Digital_Content Preservation Plan for Digital Materials The University of Alabama (UA) Libraries preserve selected digital content for long-term access support. Our highest level of attention and support is given to content selected for digitization from UA Libraries Special Collections. Other research materials are assigned preservation strategies at appropriate levels based on file formats and perceived needs of our designated audience, the faculty and students of the University of Alabama. article navigation Main Page Community portal Current events Recent changes Random page Help Donations search Go Search
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176 · Representative Documents: Privacy and Publicity Policies NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE Patron Guide to Copyright and Historical Materials: Privacy and Publicity Rights http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/copyright/privacyrights.html Privacy and Publicity Rights http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/copyright/privacyrights.html[8/7/13 7:37:24 PM] The World's Largest Medical Library U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Contact NLM History of Medicine History Home |About Us |Visit Us |Contact Us |Copyright |HMD Site Map Home History Home Copyright Guidance Home Privacy and Public Rights Copyright, Privacy, Accessibility, Site Map, Viewers and Players U.S. National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 National Institutes of Health, Health &Human Services Freedom of Information Act, Contact Us Last reviewed: 27 January 2012 Last updated: 23 July 2013 First published: 10 June 2008 Metadata| Permanence level: Permanence Not Guaranteed Privacy and Publicity Rights Privacy and publicity rights are separate and distinct issues from copyright. Patrons wanting to use materials from the Library's collections or website are responsible for determining whether privacy and publicity rights need to be addressed, the nature of the item, and considering how it will be used. While copyright laws protect the copyright owner's property rights in the work, privacy and publicity rights protect the interests of the people who are the subject of the work. Issues pertaining to privacy and publicity may arise when a patron contemplates the use of letters, oral histories, diary entries, photographs, or reportage in visual, audio, and print formats in the Library collections. Because two or more people are often involved in the work (e.g., photographer and subject, interviewer and interviewee) and because of the ease with which various digital media can be reused, photographs, audio files, and motion pictures represent materials in which privacy and publicity issues emerge with some frequency. The distinctions among privacy rights, publicity rights, and copyright are best illustrated by example: An advertiser wishes to use a photograph for a print advertisement. The advertiser approaches the photographer, who owns the copyright to the photograph, and negotiates a license to use the photograph. The advertiser is also required to determine the relationship between the photographer and the subject of the photograph. A formal relationship, usually a release form signed by the subject, will permit the photographer to license the use of the photograph for all uses. If no formal relationship exists that permits the photographer to license the use of the photograph for all uses, then the advertiser must seek permission from the subject of the photograph because the subject has retained both privacy and publicity rights in the use of their likeness. The publicity right of the subject means that a person's image may not be commercially exploited without consent and possibly compensation. While copyright is federally protected under the United States Copyright Act, with statutorily described fair use defenses against charges of copyright infringement, neither privacy nor publicity rights are subject to federal law. However, they are subject to state laws what may be permitted in one state may not be permitted in another. Although fair use is a defense to copyright infringement, it is not a defense to claims of violation of privacy or publicity rights. Causes of action related to privacy and publicity may also be pursued under the federal Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (a), e.g., unauthorized uses of a person's identity in order to create a false endorsement. While a person's right to privacy generally ends with individual's death, publicity rights associated with the commercial value of an individual's name, image, or voice may continue. For example, many estates or representatives of famous authors, musicians, actors, photographers, politicians, sports figures, celebrities, and other public figures continue to control and license use of those figures' names, likenesses, etc. Although the risks of using an image for comment or criticism or other non-commercial use may be less than for use in advertising or other commercial purposes, the risk can still be high if the person depicted is held up to ridicule or presented in a libelous manner. While it is true that famous or public figures who seek recognition have thereby surrendered some privacy, they may retain the right to control the commercial use of their image (likeness, voice, signature, etc.). This principle recognizes that a celebrity's image can be an asset in trade. Search