Prezentacja nagrań audio i wideo w Internecie przez archiwa państwowe wobec wybranych problemów wynikających z poszanowania praw autorskich i praw pokrewnych. Kilka uwag środowiska akademickiego

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Online presentation of audio and video recordings by the state archives versus the issues related to respecting copyright and the related rights. Several comments of the academia This paper focuses on signalling the most important problems related to sharing the special group of archive materials consisting of sound and image recordings in the context of the information needs of users, including school and university students. The author lists specific possibilities that archives have in the light of the existing legislation, including the Law on Archival Fonds and Archives (as amended) and the Copyright and Related Rights Law. He also draws attention to the need to adapt the existing solutions in the area of sharing audiovisual materials to the actual needs of users and suggests abandoning the solutions that come down to sound and image presentation (i.e. descriptions only) in favour of improving the appeal of the existing websites and, first and foremost, interacting with users. The author also presents the services offered by national archives in terms of reprography of sound and image materials, and he addresses the inconsistency between such offering and the declaration to provide them. The author addresses the use of audiovisual materials by national archives, arriving at a conclusion that this special type of archive materials receives relatively poor promotion. He also identifies the most urgent legislative changes required to allow archives to use sound and image in order to perform their statutory tasks of sharing and promoting archival fonds and building a positive image of archives.