Website and Digitisation Project

Digitise works in your own language

Consent

Orphan works

Cultural Restrictions

Digitisation Criteria and Priorities

The digitisation and website project aims to look after and give access to works in the Collection by:

Digitising works, to preserve them
Uploading works to the website, for people to see and use.

Look after, preserve materials

Make sure there is a digital copy, even if the original is damaged or destroyed.
Make sure we can see and hear works into the future even if technology changes.
Help to stop works being damaged from handling.

Give access to the Collection

Upload items to the website (if consent given).
Help people to access items without coming to the archive room.
Support language speakers, schools, researchers and students in far away or remote locations.
Give a copy to the copyright holder or creator.
Give a copy to another collection, e.g. language centre (by special request, certain conditions).

Digitise works in your own language

From time to time, the CALL Collection may work with CALL to provide training for students and others of you who may want to learn how to digitise works in your own language for your own cultural maintenance project. If workshops are available, the dates will be posted on this website.

All digitised works must go through a consent process before they can be uploaded to the public website. The Collection seeks consent from people before uploading works. If you can help with our consent strategy please contact the Library.

There are different kinds of consent for the website:

Copyright consent
Creator consent
Community or ICIP* consent
Talent Release.

Sometimes we have to cover all these different kinds of consent for a work to be uploaded on the website. All the consent requests refer to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property as part of the consent process.

If you can help us find people, learn more about the materials and help guide us with the consent process, please contact the Library.

What is Copyright consent?

This is for the copyright owner. A copyright owner has a set of rights over a work, e.g. to copy, sell, rent, perform, change and pass it on. Often the creator of a work is the copyright owner, but not always! Sometimes the creator is not the copyright owner — e.g if they gave the copyright to someone else; or if an organisation owns the copyright. A government department or organisation that funded or paid for the work might claim the copyright. The Department of Education often owns copyright of materials produced in schools or Literature Production Centres.

This is not legal advice. See www.copyright.org.au for information about Copyright. See www.terrijanke.com.au for more information and links about Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP).

What is Creator consent?

This is for the creator, if they are not the copyright owner. This respects the rights of the creator, for example their moral rights and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) rights.

The CALL Collection protocols and Website Terms of Use require people to name and acknowledge the creator, and to respect the materials in the Collection.

Creator rights don’t override the rights of the copyright owner or the rights of other people who have contributed to the work. This is not legal advice. See www.copyright.org.au for information about Copyright. See www.terrijanke.com.au for more information and links about Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP).

What is ICIP and/or Community consent?

This is for materials that need the right authority to give Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) consent or Community consent. ICIP is broader than copyright and moral rights, and so sometimes the Collection asks for formal ICIP consent as well. Materials with Traditional Knowledge, for example, need ICIP consent from the right cultural authority.

All the Collection consent requests include ICIP in the consent process.

What is Talent Release consent?

Talent Release consent is for the people in a picture or recording, e.g. photo, video, audio recording. Talent Release is not about copyright, it is about people giving permission for their picture or their personal biography (story from their life) to be on the website.

Orphan works

Where a work doesn’t name the person or people who made it, or a copyright holder, the Collection may upload an item to the website to ask the public for help. If you can help us find out more about materials in the Collection, or you are the right authority to let us know about restrictions for an orphan work, please contact the Library.

Cultural Restrictions

Some works in the archive have cultural restrictions. This means you may not be allowed to access certain works from the archive room or the website.

If a work that is on the website becomes restricted, and the Collection is informed, the item may be removed from the website for a time.

Please contact us if you have the authority and know of any items in the Collection that require special restriction notices, rules or need to be removed from the website for a time. We cannot place a restriction or remove an item if we are not informed by the right authority.

Digitisation Criteria and Priorities

Works will be prioritised for digitisation and the website if they are:

Consent cleared (authors and copyright have given permission for the work to be on the website)
At risk of loss, damage or deterioration
Requested for special use (e.g. by a language workshop, language project).

We need the right consent to upload works to the website.

Some works will not be digitised if they are available elsewhere.

The website and digital archive project is a large task and will be ongoing.

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