4th February 2006, 10:39 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by historic building
Usually the paper archive would be considered to be under the copyright of the organisation which produced it. You would expect that this would be detailed in any contract between the archaeologist and their client. I say this mindfully that I will probably be proved wrong but it is a situation which should not really arise.
I was thinking of 2 scenarios.
One is where the unit or individual that digs a site isn't necessarily the unit or individual that gets to do the post-ex work. I am guessing that there is no copyright involved otherwise the 'originators' of the archive if aggrieved, could refuse to hand it over to the team employed to do the post-ex.
Two is where a developer having satisfied a planning condition in allowing archaeological access and 'preservation by record' could then hang onto the site paper and finds archive, refusing further 'archaeologist' access, to save theirselves post-ex costs.