AUDIO RECORDINGS AND MOVING IMAGES REPRODUCTION SERVICES

The Southern Historical Collection, the Southern Folklife Collection, and the University Archives and Records Management Services hold a significant number of sound and moving images. For preservation purposes, listening or viewing copies rather than original recordings are made available to researchers.

For research use confined within the search room, the Collections will make listening or viewing copies available free of charge. The creation of a listening or viewing copy can take several weeks depending upon the number of copy requests in the queue prior to your request. Listening or viewing copies are retained by the Collections.

Should your research require the personal acquisition of a sound or moving image recording, the Collections will duplicate unrestricted audio recordings and moving images. The cost for making personal copies is variable and depends on a number of factors that include the existence of a listening or viewing copy, the original recording format, and the original recording's material condition. In the absence of a listening or viewing copy, the cost incurred is a function of the studio time and materials required to make a reproduction.

Creation of personal copies is governed by the following terms and conditions:

• The Collections will not make copies of recordings that are commercially available or restricted by donors.
• Researchers will complete and sign a Duplication Agreement.
• Items selected for duplication must be identified by call number or item number and by title or description.
• Your duplication request will be placed in a queue and completed in the order that it was received. Upon completion of the recording process an invoice will be sent to you, and the recording will be delivered once payment has been received.
• Recordings will be used only for personal reference and research purposes.
• Recordings will not be published or broadcast in any media, exhibited, or displayed online without the express written permission of the rights holders.
• Recordings will not be added to the holdings of another library or archival repository.
• The Collections reserve the right to refuse or to limit a duplication request at the discretion of staff.
• Reproduction of materials will be governed by any and all of the restrictions that govern the research use of the specific collection in which the recording is held.
• We are unable to make copies of any recordings contained within the:


• Taylor Branch Collection
• Florentine Films Archives
• Andy Griffith Papers
• Charles Kuralt Collection

U.S. Copyright law governs the making and use of most photocopies and other reproductions of copyrighted materials. Most manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and moving images created in the past 120 years are protected under copyright law. Transmission, reproduction, publication, or presentation (public display, performance, Internet presentation) of protected items require the permission of the copyright owners. For more information on copyright, contact the U.S. Copyright Office (http://www.loc.gov/copyright/). Copyright status and information on copyright holders can be difficult to determine for archival and manuscript collections. The responsibility for obtaining permissions rests with the researcher.

Manuscript collections and archival records that include twentieth and twenty-first century materials may contain sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. Section 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. Section 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.