# After the Fires Digitisation Preservation, Right to Research in Africa Conf., CapeTown 26Jan2023 (1)

After the Fires Digitisation and Preservation, Right to Research in Africa Conf., Cape Town 26 Jan 2023

Welcome and Introductions Professor Tobias Schonwetter, Director, IP Unit, University of Cape Town Hon. Judy Hermans MP, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition

After the Fires: Digitising our Heritage

The collection, protection and preservation of African historical records and rich cultural heritage are key custodial functions of libraries, archives and museums. African special collections and unique cultural heritage artifacts need special care as they are at risk of loss or damage due to fires, such as those in Cape Town in recent years. This session will highlight the importance of cultural heritage for African countries and for research, and the obstacles that copyright law presents for digitisation programmes. It also highlights important projects in Africa that have managed to digitise their collections, despite copyright restrictions.

Chair: Prof. Dick Kawooya, School of Information Science, U. of South Carolina

What was the impact of the UCT fire on preserved collections of potentially copyrighted material? How did South Africa’s copyright exceptions help or hinder the effort and what might be the impact of the CAB? Nikki Crowster, Director of Information Systems, UCT Libraries

How does copyright and its exceptions facilitate the role of legal deposit libraries? Mymoena Londt, Library of Parliament, South Africa How can we…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2023
- Runtime: 2 h 12 min
- By: Kyla Jade 1990
- Genres: Science
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:After_the_Fires_Digitisation_Preservation,_Right_to_Research_in_Africa_Conf.,_CapeTown_26Jan2023_(1).webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Kyla Jade 1990
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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