FACULTY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

 Legal Issues
 Copyright
▪ Who will own the oral history materials?
Oral History interview is a copywritable document from
the moment the interview ends
▪ Interviewer, interviewee and anyone else whose voice
on the tape have a copyright interest in the materials on
recording
 Legal Issues
 Public Access to the information would only
be possible only if the interviewer and
interviewee or their heir granted permission
for access
 Difficult Situations
 Interviewee unwilling to assign copyright because
they want to use the materials for their own work
(writing memoirs for e.g.)
 Interviewee close access to all or part of their
interviews if there is something:
▪ Unflattering(x mendatar)
▪ Highly confidential
▪ Potentially defamatory(fitnah)
 Difficult Situations
 Interviewee wish to remain anonymous for some
reasons:
▪ AIDS Patients
▪ Battered(didera) women
▪ Drug addicts
▪ Members of political, religious groups
who fear prosecution(pendakwaan)for sharing
their life stories
 Potential Defamatory(fitnah)
Statements
 Words relate to accusations of criminal
 Unethical or immoral behaviour
 Professional incompetence
 Financial irresponsibility
 Association with despicable(hina) people
 Ethical Issues
 Respect interviewee’s right to refuse to
participate in videotaped interview
 Selecting recording equipment that fails to
meet the test of time
▪ It is disservice to everyone who participates in a
project whose time, energy and memories that made
the project possible
 Ethical Issues
 Sensitive to the diversity of interviewee
 Refraining from making promises that cannot be
fulfilled
 Informing interviewee if oral history product are
to be published or distributed through the
internet
 Signing of Donor Form or Legal Release Form
 Can either be a contract or a deed of gift
 Gives the project repository (the place that owns
and maintain the materials) the right to use and
disseminate the oral history materials
 Contract
 Must provide for in legal term known as
‘consideration’ or payment stipulating for
example, a token payment of one dollar or
promising the interviewee a bound copy of the
interview transcript
 Deed of Gift
 A voluntary transfer of property without any
payment
 The Form should include:
clear identification of the name of the interviewee
clear identification of the project repository
a statement that the interviewee is transferring
“legal title and all literary property rights to the
interview, including copyright”
a place for the interviewee to sign
a place for the interviewer to sign