Just a brief response to point about the preserved documentation of a
performance in someway misrepresenting the original performance ...
Currently, with a selective and accessible archive like PANDORA we have
to seek permission of the owner to proceed with archiving. If we chose
the web representation of your performance for archiving and you were
concerned this would misrepresent your performance you could simple
refuse permission and we would not preserve it. In respect of an archive
like the Internet Archive that does crawling, you could put a robot.txt
rule to deny the IA permission to harvest, or if it was archived you can
ask them to remove it. Ethical institutions and organisations like the
two mentioned will respect your wishes. Of course by putting anything
online you are basically making it available for anyone to copy for
their own purposes. I would also make the point that, should legal
deposit me extended to cover electronic resources we could harvest a
copy for preservation purposes without explicit permission of the
publisher, but this does not currently exist, so permission we must
seek.
I guess the point would be that any online representation of your
original work should include contextual information of your own
creation, which would be captured as part of the resource should we
archive it. Also, we create catalogue records that can also include
notes to record the context of the online resource.
Paul