Strypey

Like the Right to Repair, we have a Right to Archive. Copyright laws around the world must change, to make it clear that noncommercial archiving of born-digital, published artifacts is Fair Use/ Dealing, and exempt from all copyright claims.

The alternative is to let the powerful run their own versions of the Ministry of Truth, and stuff any digital artifact that's inconvenient to them down the memory hole.

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#copyright #CopyrightReform #FairUse #RightToArchive

Strypey (@[email protected])

@[email protected] I mean, are you aware of this? https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like These people collectively control the archives of most of the world's discussions. As Orwell warned us in 1984; "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" Independent archiving of public discussions is an essential hedge against global totalitarianism. Orwelll again; "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever." This is what's at stake.

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Aug 9, 2025 at 1:29amWeb
Show threadStrypeyAug 9, 2025

This is one reason I called out Carole Cadwalladr's support for the ahistorical propaganda claim that copyright is "property" and permissionless copying is "stealing";

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/114992380179719117

A copyright is a bounded monopoly, granted by states for public interest reasons. Archivists making copies of digitally distributed works are giving to the public, not taking from publishers or authors.

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Strypey (@[email protected])

But Carole Cadwalladr loses me about 5 minutes from the end, where she claims that copyrights are "property" and that copying public data is like walking into someone's house to "steal the silver". For one thing, this is just factually wrong, and was thoroughly debunked 20 years ago; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/boldrin-levine.en.html But it's also the old anti-traveller cant; 'we can't have those kind of people loitering around here, going into people's places stealing the silver'. (1/2) #IP #IntellectualProperty

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Show threadStrypeyAug 9, 2025

If anyone is willing to argue the toss without taking it personally and getting huffy, I'd be intrigued to explore how to Right to Archive interfaces with the #RightToBeForgotten. As well as the 'public not Public' consent-based ideas.

Each of these encodes some valid insights and sheds a certain light on how democratic rights apply in digital spaces. The question is, how to line them all up so they don't end up in conflict with each other, and can't be exploited for divide-and-rule purposes.

Show threadNancy Mauro-FludeAug 13, 2025
@strypey such a complex and important discussion
Show threadStrypeyAug 13, 2025

@sister0
> such a complex and important discussion

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