Ethical Considerations in Videotape Preservation

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Introduction

Ethical considerations

Resource limitations

Complaints about other institutions

The line between what is video and what is computer graphics is disappearing

Rights

Laws and Regulations

Privacy and restricted information

Confidentiality

Reasons to retain the "original"

When (if at all) is it ethical to discard the original?

FIAT/IFTA Handbook

Preventive Preservation

Restoration

When is it acceptable to restore the original?

How do we decide what is an appropriate action?

Reversibility

What techniques are ethically acceptable to use to recover the video signal?

Body of accepted practice

Importance of documentation

Ethics of alteration

Alterations: gradational and absolute.

Transfer from one medium to another

Transfer

Purposes of documentation:

Purposes of documentation:

Purposes of documentation:

Separate commentaries on:

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation of Examination

Documentation of Treatment

Preservation of Documentation

SMPTE

Related organizations

Related organizations

Related organizations

Related organizations

Build consensus

Related issues

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