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If these were digitised, they'd be public domain; anyone would have the right to create their own copy. Quietly shredding paper documents is a lot easier than g
by jdietrich 3y ago
If these were digitised, they'd be public domain; anyone would have the right to create their own copy. Quietly shredding paper documents is a lot easier than getting a court order against Internet Archive. Open digitisation is a very powerful tool to stop governments from throwing things down the memory hole.
- justinclift 3y ago> If these were digitised, they'd be public domain Is that a certainty? "Crown Copyright" is a thing in the UK and other Commonwealth countries, and still seems to be in use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright#United_Kingdom
- iggldiggl 3y agoAnd leaving history aside for a moment, by now government probably produces lots of native digital records, but that in no way means that they're automatically publicly accessible.