--- John Benson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:17:27 +0100 (BST)
> From: John Benson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: QUEERUPNORTH ARCHIVE PROJECT - FILM
> MATERIAL
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Hello
>
> I was hoping you might be able to help me, or at
> least
> advise. I am John Benson, and I am currently the
> Project Archivist at queerupnorth International
> Festival in Manchester, where I have been spending
> some months now cataloguing the material and
> transferring it to the appropriate repository.
> Included within it is a quantity of film material.
This
> is basically a bit of a ‘bran tub’ consisting as it
> does of material that has come in with artists’
> submissions, combined with material filmed by
> queerupnorth or someone working on their behalf and
> material that has been recorded ‘off air’. I have a
> couple of issues with this material that I was
> hoping
> you could help me with:
>
> I am hoping to provide access copies of the material
> for viewing at Manchester Archives and Local
> Studies,
> where the rest of the archive resides. I have,
> however, a copyright concern about doing this,
> particularly with regards to the material recorded
> ‘off air’, which clearly, intellectually speaking,
> is
> not ‘owned’ by queerupnorth. Neither, for that
> matter,
> is the material that has come in with artists’
> submissions, which is presumably copyrighted to the
> artists in question. My understanding of copyright
> as
> it affects paper archives is that the material can
> be
> freely used by the public so long as it is for
> research rather than commercial purposes. I wondered
> if you had a view whether this applies to audio
> visual
> material too and whether, therefore, we can make it
> available for public use on this basis? Certainly
> the
> material is a legitimate, natural part of the
> archive,
> the use of which would not be complete without
> reference to it.
> Having provided access copies of the material, I am
> hoping to find a home for the original copies. This
> is
> proving somewhat problematic since:
> The North West Film Archive here in Manchester only
> want material that contains an explicit, unique
> reference to the area. They don’t want recordings of
> performances, even those recorded here in Manchester
> and they can’t take the material recorded ‘off air’
> for copyright reasons.
> The British Film Institute would prefer not to take
> material in VHS format, as this isn’t the real
> master
> copy format. They only want material that is
> absolutely unique and they don’t want non British
> material, of which, being an international festival,
> there is a lot.
>
> Obviously I understand and respect these
> organization's collecting policies. I do however
> feel
> quite strongly that this material should at the very
> least be preserved properly somewhere, preferably
> together. Certainly some of the material, such as
> that
> recorded here at the festival, is absolutely unique
> and a great deal of it must be practically unique,
> in
> the sense that tracking down the original would be
> somewhere between very difficult and absolutely
> impossible. Perhaps more than any of that however, I
> feel that this material is an essential part of the
> story of queerupnorth and as a ‘gathering together’
> of
> material is unique; even the material ‘off air’,
> which
> otherwise would take a huge amount of searching for
> and collecting. The issue is becoming relatively
> urgent, since my contract here doesn’t extend beyond
> the end of October. I am very reluctant to leave the
> material here, since I suspect this would result in
> the material sustaining damage and/or, in all
> probability, disappearing altogether.
>
> I would be very grateful for any advice you are able
> to give on any of these issues.
>
> With many thanks
>
> John Benson
> Project Archivist
> queerupnorth
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