Digitization controversy
Well, making digitized stuff available online has its drawbacks! 
Alumnus Sues Cornell Over Article Newly Surfaced in Digital Archive from Library Journal
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January 29, 2008
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Jill Hurst-Wahl has an interesting post about privacy and digitization today at http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2008/01/right-to-be-left-alone.html
She refers to the “Vegas rule”, which is “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”–unfortunately, the folks who are scanning items may not realize that someone’s “Vegas event” is included in the item they have digitized
Comment by Lisa — January 29, 2008 @ 11:37 am
There are so many newspapers with full text online.
What does this mean for them?
Comment by Dinah Harris — January 30, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
This issue is relevant to our football image project, if there’s a question of whether to list player’s names. While playing for ‘Bama may be somewhat less embarassing than getting arrested, if a former player doesn’t want that publicity, who are we to decide what’s a valid reason and what’s not? At the core of online privacy is the principle that the individual is the ultimate arbiter of what information about him/her goes public (especially now that “public” means both worldwide and semi-permanent). Granted, in the case of football players, it’s required for them to give the university the right to use their likeness and name however the university wants to, but that’s a technicality, as far as I’m concerned. Should we proceed with the image archive under the assumptions that a) players won’t mind having their names and images published, and b) the university and its agents can “legally” publish this info anyway, or do we take a more cautious approach, and aim for a coarser level of granularity?
Comment by Greg — February 3, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
Good point, Greg! I’ve added a new link on the Project Wiki (”Other issues for client (not mission related)). Go ahead and start that page and add this concern to it. If need be, we’ll limit access to the images db until we get clarification on this issue. Good job!
Comment by Steven MacCall — February 3, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
Ooh, very good question! That’s definitely something to figure out before getting too far along any one path of thought.
Comment by A'Llyn — February 4, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
I read about a guy in Spain who was selling “books” online. The books turned out to be print outs of academic publications that he was downloading from the institutional repositories of U.S. universities. The authors had no idea they were being published by a third party. Once something goes digital it is very hard to control.
Comment by Roger — February 4, 2008 @ 9:57 pm