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Is the Internet Archive making money off of it? I agree with your statement in isolation, but this is in the context of preserving stories (and heck, history)
by kroltan 4y ago
Is the Internet Archive making money off of it?
I agree with your statement in isolation, but this is in the context of preserving stories (and heck, history) so they can be retold at all.
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Unrelated tangent, I really miss the distinction of "story" ("estória") and "history" ("história") in the Portuguese language, it makes speaking about topics involving but not exclusively fiction very hard.
- luckylion 4y agoThe IA isn't, but the argument was that copyright is dumb, not that a nonprofit like the IA should have exception. Archiving and making publicly available are different things though, so I don't think an exception for archiving should extend to distribution. The archiving also clashes with individual privacy rights and the "right to be forgotten" (which I'm not a big fan of in its depth, but totally agree with in principle). Perhaps not having distinct terms isn't the worst thing: it reminds us that history is largely fictional, both on the personal and the society level, and its truthiness and usefulness is derived from our shared belief in it.