Copyright vs Accessibility: The Challenge of Exploitation, by Retha Buys and Ilse Assmann

This paper was first published in IASA Journal no. 41, September 2013, and seeks ways of enabling exploitation of archive material when little or no information exists regarding copyright. How do we make the past available for today with little or no information and resources?




Retha Buys

This is real....

First time in my fifteen years in the SABC Radio Archives I have find a brittle reel to reel tape.  Our guess is that it has been lying in the sun for some time.  Fortunately it is not from or for our collection.  This will not happen to our reel to reel tapes, since it is stored in a climate-controlled space, with fire-protection and all necessary measurements in place.

- Retha Buys, Custodian: Springbok Radio