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- Title: Trafficking (In) the Archive: Canada, Copyright, And the Study of Television (Report)
- Author : English Studies in Canada
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 222 KB
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OUR ESSAY IS INDEBTED TO THE IDEA OF TRAFFICKING, that is, to the idea that the movement of certain things, in certain contexts, is illicit. We propose in this paper that the dissemination of knowledge for most media scholarship in Canada inherently involves trafficking in covert archives. Our particular interest is in television texts and the idea that, within the increasingly constricting context of Canadian copyright and privacy laws, using, sharing, format shifting, copying, screening, and teaching Canadian television texts are collectively an illegal activity. We are certainly not the first ones to make note of this movement. In 1990, Mary Jane Miller wrote a piece that was included in the proceedings stemming from a symposium of the International Council of Archives by the National Archives of Canada. It is called, wonderfully, "Archives from the Point of View of the Scholarly User: or, If I died and went to a platonic archetype of a sound and moving images archive this is what I'd find." In it, she describes the televisual scholar's archival paradise. It's a place where there are archivists who know and value the work of the television scholar. It's a place where one can sit and watch or read through all sorts of material, because a television archive should not just contain television texts but also all sorts of written materials (scripts, memos, reviews, letters) relating to the production, dissemination, and viewing of television. This archive is user friendly. Users continuously add texts to the archive. Miller, for example, considers this a place for her extensive interviews of key players in the national public broadcaster, the CBC. And, amazingly given the time it was written, Miller imagines the archive to exist in digital as well as material space, allowing all sorts of people, from all sorts of places, to be connected to it. This was 1990. Twenty years later, while technologies have radically changed and altered the televisual landscape and its study, it seems that we are hardly better off then we were before. Along with Mary Jane, we are still dreaming of archive heaven.
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