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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.
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/114992084802325912
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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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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.
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