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archive.org is good for public domain content, which this clearly is not. The right place for this would be offline tape archive.
by zokier 4y ago
archive.org is good for public domain content, which this clearly is not. The right place for this would be offline tape archive.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoYou would think youtube would be fine with public domain content too. But this is not necessarily the case. Besides copyright strikes, youtube will also take videos down because they contain controversial content that advertisers don't like. They don't evaluate videos in the context of the video being old archived content representing old values from a different era. Particularly, I believe Jeff Quitney's channel (which was mostly old aerospace videos made by the US government, but was generally for whatever old film he got his hands on) got banned because some of the videos were old political propaganda which expressed views which are now verboten.
- Asparagirl 4y agoThe IA hosts lots of non-public-domain videos, including loads of rare ripped-from-VCR material. Copyright status rarely is an issue unless a copyright holder finds a specific video and makes an explicit DMCA claim against it. And even then, nothing is ever really deleted, just non-visible, for now…