Authorship and copyright ownership in the digital oral archives domain: The Gra.fo digital archive in the CLARIN-IT repository

The paper addresses the problem of authorship and copyright ownership in relation to a digital oral archive created through the digitisation of several analogue archives. The case study is provided by the Gra.fo digital archive (Grammo-foni. Le soffitte della voce, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the University of Siena, Tuscan Region PAR FAS 2007- 13), a collection of around 30 Tuscan oral archives which is in the process of being documented in the CLARIN-IT repository1. The problem is addressed from both an archival and a legal perspective, since speech and oral digital archives are at the crossroads of different fields of knowledge