Data: 27 de Outubro de 2023 (09h00 - 16h30)

Local: Online

Organização: European Society for Textual Scholarship, em parceria com a Universidade de Borås – SSLIS e a Universidade de Lisboa – CLUL

Mais informações: Neste site; elsa.pereira@campus.ul.pt

Inscrições: Obrigatórias até 22 de Outubro de 2023.

Through the practice of editing culturally and historically relevant documents, textual scholars are regularly faced with legal restrictions to their scholarly endeavours – including both copyright and non-copyright restrictions such as the privacy and moral rights of authors. The 5th ESTS Conference, dedicated to the theme "Private: do (not) enter" (Lisbon, 2008), lifted the veil on some of these legal issues, but the regulatory problem is multifaceted and has been accentuated with the digital turn in humanities research. The fact that copyright law is territorial, for example, makes the path towards publishing and providing international access to online digital scholarly editions of more recent or sensitive documents especially difficult to navigate. In practice, these added difficulties and legal uncertainties cause funding agencies, libraries, and archives to prioritise the digitisation and publication of less legally problematic materials – which threatens to cause a bias in our output as a research field.

To address these issues as a research community and learn from each other's experiences, the organisers are hosting an online symposium on 27 October 2023 that aims to reflect on the legal restrictions that may affect textual scholarship in the analogue and digital paradigms, with a special focus on textual and genetic criticism.

The symposium is organised in affiliation with the European Society for Textual Scholarship as a satellite event taking place outside of its annual conference. It is supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the scope of DL57/2016/CP1443/CT0033.