On 07/18/12 12:01 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Ray Saintonge, 04/12/2011 02:27:
For ourselves, it would make sense to be careful.
In the broader scheme
of things the situation bears watching. Do the authors of the articles
even give a damn? I suspect that few if any with standing will ever
complain. Those few can easily be accommodated. It makes one wonder
about the benefit to being purists about respecting copyrights.
We put a way stronger stress on the "free" part indeed.
archive.org archives the whole internet and all sorts of stuff which
are obviously copyrighted, but the pseudo-delete ("dark" and keep in
their system for the future) any time an author requests to do so even
if without legitimate reason. Very few do.
Another thing to keep in mind is that "free" is also a verb. We
generate more freedom by giving an opportunity for the owners of older
rights to express themselves, or allow the rights to lapse by doing
nothing. Contrast this with maintaining protections out of fear.
Ray