On a recent Shop Talk Show episode, Chris Coyier mentions that he had a conversation with Jason Scott that archive.org has notes around saying that when person

On a recent Shop Talk Show episode, Chris Coyier mentions that he had a conversation with Jason Scott that archive.org has notes around saying that when person X passes away, they post file Y, because they are the only person that cares about the copyright of said file. It seems that they are willing to skirt copyright information if no one is likely to challenge it. And society is better for it.