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It would take a massive amount of labor to determine what in the existing archive is out of copyright in a legally verifiable manner. There’s nothing keeping t
by TimorousBestie 2y ago
It would take a massive amount of labor to determine what in the existing archive is out of copyright in a legally verifiable manner.
There’s nothing keeping the record labels or other corporate copyright aggregators from declaring legal warfare on your hypothetical child organization.
- badlibrarian 2y agoJason Scott and others all the way to the top have been saying "Just upload! We'll figure it out later!" for a decade. That turned out to be a bad strategy. They're also infamous for ignoring DMCA requests. Requiring a driver's license or passport before they'll even talk to you. Then they leaked those, ugh. Archiving stuff is Fair Use, but where's the fun in that, I guess. People should be able to upload things and say "Yes, this is a bootleg mix of a Prince song. Archive it but don't publish it, please." A combination of bizarre policies and subverting their own DMCA protections is why they're in this mess. Again. Musk showed up for lunch looking to vacuum things up. I hope that's not how this story ends. But it's starting to look like it.