Another reason for non-commercial archives
Monday, October 23rd, 2006YouTube Deletes 30,000 Files After a Copyright Complaint. Copyright law can make it difficult to maintain archival integrity, especially for commercial organizations.
YouTube Deletes 30,000 Files After a Copyright Complaint. Copyright law can make it difficult to maintain archival integrity, especially for commercial organizations.
In Chapter 9 of Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig and Brewster Kahle have a conversation about television archives:
In addition to the Internet Archive, Kahle has been constructing the Television Archive. Television, it turns out, is even more ephemeral than the Internet. While much of twentieth- century culture was constructed through television, only a tiny proportion [...]