‘Defamation Risks in Oral Histories’

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) Deposit Terms and Conditions states that the depositor ‘will promptly notify the Repository of any copyright, confidentiality, privacy, data protection, defamation, or similar or related issues pertaining to the digital objects’. In this blog post, we ask what defamation risks should you be aware of if you are archiving an oral history that is un-anonymised, and the interviewee mentions a third party? We talked to Dr Eoin O’Dell, associate professor at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, and asked what researchers based in Ireland need to know about defamation law … (more)

[Aileen O’Carroll, Digital Repository of Ireland, 3 August 2022]

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