News outlets want readers – and big tech – to pay for their content. But blocking the Internet Archive will leave major holes in the public record of the web.
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The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.
Mark Zuckerberg says he wants the world to be more “open and connected”, but his decision to block archiving the company’s social media content argues otherwise.
After 20 years of copyright battles, publishers have still not found a way to make the most of the potential of digital books.
Portions of the internet disappear every day. Preservation of this historical record requires a proactive approach by archivists and everyday citizens.
Two Lumbee scholars who have mined local archives in search of tribal history raise the profound question: Who has the rights to memories and artifacts of their people’s past?
As our societies lose paper trails and increasingly rely on digital information, historians, and their grasps of context, will become more important than ever.
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Religious Collections Librarian/Archivist and Associate Professor, University Libraries, University of Dayton
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Assistant Curator for History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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