Research Catalog

Title

A guide to oral history and the law / John A. Neuenschwander.

Author

Neuenschwander, John A.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Neuenschwander, John A.

Description

xvii, 167 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"The new edition covers legal release agreements; defamation; copyright; the Internet; Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), oral history as evidence; the duty to report a crime; teaching considerations. It includes examples of best practices and legal precautions. The areas that receive particular attention are legal release agreements, safeguards for protecting interviews online; and procedures to protect against defamation"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

The Oxford oral history series

Subject

• Privacy, Right of > United States
• Copyright > United States
• Contracts > United States
• Historians > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Oral history
• Historians > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Oral history > United States
• Freedom of information > United States

Genre/Form

• oral histories (literary works)
• Oral histories
• Handbooks and manuals
• Histoires orales.

Note

• Based on author's Oral history and the law. 3rd ed. Carlisle, PA : Oral History Association, c2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A case study -- Legal release agreements -- Compelled release of interviews : subpoenas and FOIA requests -- Defamation -- Privacy issues : the stealth torts -- Copyright -- Oral history on the Internet -- Institutional review boards and oral history -- Is there a duty to report a crime?

ISBN

• 9780195365962 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0195365968 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 9780195365979 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 0195365976 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2008053833

OCLC

• 288378450
• SCSB-10272446

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library