| CODE | LIS3311 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Legal Issues in Memory Institutions | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Library Information and Archive Sciences | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The goal of the study-unit is to familiarize students with the basic legal instruments that regulate the activities of memory institutions. Memory institutions preserve some of the most precious sources of information for the development of society and modern culture. At the heart of their existence lies the problem of the recording, archiving and administering information. To control the flow of such information poses a huge challenge, as it is connected with the political, economic and cultural development of human societies. Information is a major instrument of power structures and by archiving and saving such developments, archives, libraries and memory institutions open up an important window for research. To know the legal regime that regulates access to such information is, therefore, of vital importance. Study-Unit Aims: - To familiarize students with the basic regulatory regime of memory institutions; - To empower students to identify and interpret the key legal sources; - To guide students in understanding the key social repercussions of the power structures that revolve around the phaenomenon of preserving memory. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: a) Define the importance and necessity of legal regulation; b) Identify the key regulation areas of memory institutions; c) Define the basic regulatory mechanisms of data protection law and its impact on memory institutions; d) Define the basic regulatory mechanisms of copyright saw and its impact on memory institutions; e) Make legally compliant decisions independently; f) Recognize when, which and what legal advice is necessary in more complicated cases. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: a) identify the key legal instruments in the area; b) interpret and apply the laws regulating memory institutions; c) process access requests to information kept in memory institutions; d) aware of the risks and benefits of such access; e) take part in policy discussions with regard to the regulation of such memory institutions. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Raymond Wacks, Law – A very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2008 - Katherine Foxhall, Data Protection and Historians in the UK Royal Historical Society, 2020 - Cherie L. Givens, Information privacy fundamentals for librarians and information professionals, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015 - Pekka Henttonen, Privacy as an archival problem and a solution, Arch Sci, 2017, p. 285–303 - Alessia Ghezzi, Ângela Guimarães Pereira, and Lucia Vesnić-Alujević (eds), The ethics of memory in a digital age: interrogating the right to be forgotten, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 Supplementary Readings: - Tim Padfield, Copyright for archivists and records managers, 6th edition, Facet Publishing, 2019 - Christophe Geiger, Giancarlo Frosio, Oleksandr Bulayenko, The exception for Text and Data Mining (TDM) in the Proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market Legal Aspects, Center for International Intellectual Property Studies Research Paper No. 2018-02 - WIPO, Study on copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives: updated and revised (2017 edition) - Paul Keller, Explainer: What will the DSM directive change for cultural heritage institutions? Europeana Foundation, June 2019, available at https://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/Explainer_%20What%20will%20the%20DSM%20directive%20change%20for%20cultural%20heritage%20institutions_%20090619.pdf |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Joseph Cannataci Aitana Radu (Co-ord.) |
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