Open AccessARKIVER OG BARRIKADER - DIGITALISERINGEN AF DR’S RADIOARKIVER I KULTURHISTORISK PERSPEKTIV. RYDNINGEN AF BYGGEREN (1980) SOM EKSEMPEL
Author(s) -
Erik Granly Jensen
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
k and k/kandk
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2246-2589
pISSN - 0905-6998
DOI - 10.7146/kok.v42i117.17560
Subject(s) - situated , public domain , cultural heritage , corporation , politics , intellectual property , sociology , media studies , political science , law , library science , history , computer science , archaeology , artificial intelligence
ARCHIVES AND BARRICADES | The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) has begun the digitisation of its audio-visual archives. This transformation from analogue to digital archives raises a number of questions regarding the archive-specific character, history and content of the broadcast material. Furthermore, the digitisation process renders visible a number of problems. This includes possible access for researchers, general availability of the content and permission to present archival material in the public domain; problems all related to intellectual property rights. The article will present the historical broadcast archive from a cultural historical and media policy perspective, suggesting that the cultural heritage of state-owned audio-visual archives remains a contested area due not only to the exis-ting copyright laws but to aspects of historical contextualisation as well. The article presents this perspective through a case study consisting of 48 radio programmes all related to the clearing of the children’s playground Byggeren in Copenhagen in May 1980. The case study underlines the complicated institutional and cultural political implications in which the historic audio-visual source material is situated.