Comment on The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter
Kichae@kbin.social 1 year agotheir value comes from them being relevant
The news's value should be to society, though, not shareholders?
Comment on The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter
Kichae@kbin.social 1 year agotheir value comes from them being relevant
The news's value should be to society, though, not shareholders?
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Maybe? We’re talking about a paradigm shift in copyright at a time where it’s harder and harder for traditional journalism to survive. I fear if we take such hardline stances on whether or not this information is freely accessible, we will lose it outright. Propaganda is always free. The truth has costs.
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
Right, the whole original point of copyright in the US at all was "to promote the creative arts" - that they were finding that if there wasn't at least SOME time for people to try to profit off of stuff they wrote/made, there was way way less motivation for people to put in the effort. It's been twisted a good bit since, but it's not nonsense, at all.
Same with real journalism. Don't see how people expect it to be done for free. For the past several hundred years it's been normal to pay a modest fee for news.