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The ethics of archive acquisitions: why couldn’t an important collection of British trans history stay in the UK?
Type: Online Resource
Author
Catherine Baker
Description
This post reports that an archive collection relating to the history of transgender people in the UK was rejected by the Hall-Carpenter Archive at the London School of Economics on the grounds that there was no inventory of the collection, the materials would have to be anonymised, and that third-party copyright materials would need to be removed. The collection was later accepted by the University of Victoria, Canada.
Date
2013 July 22
Commentary
This blog post presents an unusual example of a collection being turned down by an archive service on the basis of copyright issues (amongst others). As a result, the collection is now based in Canada, and the transgender community in the UK do not have local access to the materials.
Publisher
Catherine Baker
Jurisdiction
Canada, United Kingdom
Language
ENG
Copyright Information
In Copyright
Rights and Reuse
All Rights Reserved
Cortex Citation:
Catherine Baker, “The ethics of archive acquisitions: why couldn’t an important collection of British trans history stay in the UK?,” Copyright Cortex, accessed October 18, 2026, https://copyright-cortex.org/tools-resources/the-ethics-of-archive-acquisitions-why-couldnt-an-important-collection-of-british-trans-history-stay-in-the-uk.
Catherine Baker, “The ethics of archive acquisitions: why couldn’t an important collection of British trans history stay in the UK?,” Copyright Cortex, accessed October 18, 2026, https://copyright-cortex.org/tools-resources/the-ethics-of-archive-acquisitions-why-couldnt-an-important-collection-of-british-trans-history-stay-in-the-uk.