Hi Jean
>Beyond legal aspects, there are also ethics
>issues. Even if some countries allow this (which
>I am not sure), do we want to record people
>without their knowing (even on trivial matters) ?
But if people know beforehand that they are going
to be recorded, might this not alter
what they say and their way of saying it?
Surely asking their permission afterwards - after
they have listened to the recording, if they
are worried - should not be rejected as a possible ethically-sound policy?
After all, CCTV operates in many public spaces
without asking anyone's permission beforehand....
Best
Ramesh
At 8:45 am +0200 12/5/05, Jean Veronis wrote:
>Cameron Smart a écrit :
>
>>participants aren't necessarily aware of the recording taking place. Several
>>people struck a very cautionary note, one even saying that, in the UK at
>>least, these types of corpora might be a thing of the past unless I went and
>>got explicit permission not only from the volunteer but every other person
>>who was recorded as well.
>>
>>
>The law may be different in different countries.
>In France the situation is clear, you cannot
>record, and worse yet re-distribute anybody's
>voice and/or transcribed speech without explicit
>authorisation, even if anonymity is guaranteed.
>
>Beyond legal aspects, there are also ethics
>issues. Even if some countries allow this (which
>I am not sure), do we want to record people
>without their knowing (even on trivial matters) ?
>
>--jv
> http://aixtal.blogspot.com
-- Ramesh Krishnamurthy Lecturer in English Studies School of Languages and Social Sciences Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812 Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766 http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/english/
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