Intellectual Property and the Historian in the New Millennium

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
Gerald Herman
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Public History ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
National Council ◽  
Roundtable Discussion ◽  
New Millennium

On April 12, 2002, a roundtable discussion was held during the joint National Council on Public History/Organization of American Historians annual meetings in Washington D.C. This roundtable, “Intellectual Property and the Historian in the New Millennium,” addressed issues of copyright for public historians as authors and users in the digital age, when the technologies of reproduction and dissemination have exploded and Congress has struggled to keep up. Roundtable chair Gerald Herman summarizes the challenges faced by public historians in the new millennium and introduces a transcript of the roundtable discussion.

Bringing to Life Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth—A How-to Guide

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Jessica I. Elfenbein
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
National Council ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
American Cities

Abstract This article provides an overview of Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth, the multifaceted work led by the University of Baltimore over the course of four years to hear the many voices of our community and to document the varied ways the causes and effects of the civil unrest of April 1968 affected Baltimore and scores of other American cities. Our work, lauded in the national press, received the National Council on Public History's Outstanding Project and the American Association of State and Local History's Award of Merit and 2009 WOW Award. We believe this kind of history, different from popular booster narratives, is a model for public history projects. This article also considers the ways in which universities, as anchor institutions, are increasingly taking the lead in public history and other civic engagement projects. The creative use of university and community resources, including AmeriCorps participation and collaborative partnerships, is also considered.

Intellectual Property Rights and the Protection of Africa's Traditional Knowledge

2017 ◽  
pp. 122-145
Author(s):  
Benjamin Enahoro Assay
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Piracy ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
The Media

This chapter examines the media, intellectual property rights and the protection of Africa's traditional knowledge in the digital age. It reviews literature on intellectual property, intellectual property rights, the various forms of intellectual property rights and the misappropriation and infringement on intellectual property rights, traditional knowledge, and media in digital age. The chapter provides perspectives on the issues and controversies on the non-protection of traditional knowledge within the existing frameworks of IP system and rules. It points out that the products of Africa's traditional knowledge are in dire need of protection against global competitors and therefore urges African governments to take advantage of the IP rules to negotiate with industrialized countries for the protection of their products. The chapter called for the enactment of tougher legislations to halt the menace of counterfeiting and digital piracy and deliberate use of the media to promote the products. It also made some recommendations that would help Africa defend its IP.

scholarly journals An Overview of Public History in Italy: No Longer A Field Without a Name

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Noiret
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Public History ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Italian Association ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
New Millennium

AbstractThis article traces the origins and development of public history in Italy, a field not anymore without this name today. Public history in Italy has its roots in historical institutions born in the nineteenth century and in the post WW2 first Italian Republic. The concept of “public use of history” (1993), the important role played by memory issues in post-war society, local and national identity issues, the birth of public archaeology (2015) before public history, the emergence of history festivals in the new millennium are all important moments shaping the history of the field and described in this essay. The foundation of the “Italian Association of Public History” (AIPH) in 2016/2017, and the promotion of an Italian Public History Manifesto (2018) together with the creation of Public History masters in universities, are all concrete signs of a vital development of the field in the Peninsula.

Public History Weekly - A Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Cauvin
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Public History ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The Public ◽  
Peer Reviewing ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Significant Step ◽  
English Speaking

AbstractAs with any other scholarship, public history has its academic journals. The two main journals are The Public Historian (USA, 1978-) and The Public History Review (Australia, 1992-). As a new-comer in the field, International Public History – the journal of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) – symbolizes the wish to move away from a predominantly Anglo-Saxon and English-speaking public history. The creation of Public History Weekly (PHW) in 2013 was another early and significant step in this process of internationalization. PHW has published (by March 2018) 260 articles from 74 authors and 479 comments – in 13 languages. All articles – published every Thursday morning – and comments are open access. Open peer-reviewed (OPR), PHW belongs to a new format of publishing in the digital age. In September 2017, Seth Denbo was wondering “Can history accommodate modes of review and publication that would provide greater flexibility and enable nontraditional research outputs to flourish?” With 27,600 visits and 400,000 page-views per month, PHW provides some preliminary answers on what digital and international public history publishing can be.

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