Documentation and archiving the performing arts
Issues of Intellectual Property Rights and Intangible Cultural Heritage

Many issues faced by those who research and document, perform or publish are not only a matter of legality but of ethical and moral rights. Some of these may be covered by law and many are not or cannot be dealt with by laws alone. Ethics and moral rights are also areas which are very culture specific and are not easy to approach in a standardised format. However ethics are at the centre of our concerns and of all those who work in culture and performance, and it is this area that we wish to develop and strengthen, perhaps more than any other.

Fair use and fair dealing however are concepts linked to Copyright and the kind of uses that would be considered fair such as use for research and teaching. As technologies change, this concept too is undergoing many changes and meeting new challenges. 

The articles in this section raise some of these issues.