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Copyright is a legal mechanism for restricting others from making copies, not for demanding they make copies for you. Off hand I'm unaware of any general legal
by wahern 6y ago
Copyright is a legal mechanism for restricting others from making copies, not for demanding they make copies for you. Off hand I'm unaware of any general legal mechanism to accomplish that outside of a contract or promise.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoThat’s why I suggested the DPA which does allow for rightsholders to request copies of data pertinent to themselves - I’d argue that usenet postings would fall under that scope.
- erik_seaberg 6y agoDoesn't that just create an incentive to destroy the archive before GDPR authorities can shake them down over it?
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoPerhaps - but it also creates an incentive for companies to destroy inappropriately-held and collected personal data they have no business possessing. The DPA isn’t new - it was created in 1988 - and UK ISPs had Usenet/NNTP servers long after that.