Tag: preservation
What Can We Give One Another? On Public Domain, Preservation, and Living Without Copyright
Could you only consume public domain work for a year straight? With the new year coming up and various IP being released to the public domain, I thought I'd muse on copyright and the future of art and culture.
Make Digital Preservation Easier
If major companies think it’s too hard or costly to leave up user-generated content, perhaps we need to change the motivations.
Hindsight Is 2020
The decade’s over, and Tedium is another year older. Here’s some thoughts on the past, future, and preservation amid our fifth anniversary.
Historic Digital Places
Corporate motivation isn’t enough when it comes to digital preservation. Here’s a case for creating a National Register of Historic Places for websites.
Innovation Versus Preservation
How we keep screwing over yesterday’s technology due to an intent focus on what we’re doing today. The problem of planned obsolescence is getting worse.
The Lazarus Libraries
What happens when “lost” films and television shows become found once again—and what that does to the work’s cultural legacy.