Legal requirements for publication of oral history interviews in the cyberspace

This paper discusses legal requirements for online publication of oral history interviews. Issues relating to the publication of oral history interviews were identified from library resources. Then the websites of the Miller Archival Center, National Archives of Singapore, University of Harvard, NASA Oral History Center, and the National Archives of Iran were checked for their regulations regarding the publication records of oral history documents. F The considerations with regard to the carrying out and publication of interviews are important: The narrator must be made aware of the purpose of the interview; legal issues should be mentioned at the beginning of the interview, seeking the permission of the narrator for releasing the content of the interview on the web, complying with the ethical issues, familiarity of those responsible for electronic publication with databases and having a policy statement before release.