Y’know I used to think that it was a big enough act of cultural vandalism that the BBC had literally taped over crucial elements of our shared memory just to save money on buying fresh videotape. But today we learn that Paramount has apparently deleted the entire archive of MTV content. Now I’ve never watched MTV and won’t miss what’s crassly destroyed by beancounters but I invite you to imagine them deleting … oh let’s say the entire archive of Star Trek because it’s their property and they can
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Y’know I used to think that it was a big enough act of cultural vandalism that the BBC had literally taped over crucial elements of our shared memory just to save money on buying fresh videotape. -
Y’know I used to think that it was a big enough act of cultural vandalism that the BBC had literally taped over crucial elements of our shared memory just to save money on buying fresh videotape.There’s an argument that artistic material is too important to be left in the capricious hands of the people who merely own the IP. It’s why we have national libraries and archives. It’s why the Internet Archive and WayBackMachine were such vital inventions to sit above a constantly shifting, volatile thing like the Internet. “I own it and I can do what I like with it” should not be an absolute. Ownership applies only up to a point because we ALL have a stake in the history of our culture.
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Jo Maugham presents the receipts for his assertions about a trans youth suicide explosion and NHS management attempts to cover it up.Jo Maugham presents the receipts for his assertions about a trans youth suicide explosion and NHS management attempts to cover it up. The gender criticals kidded themselves they were on the right side of history and shutting down a conspiracy in trans care. As anyone could have predicted, their ideology, snatching the prospect of timely care from young trans people, appears to have produced an actual tragedy.
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Landmark ruling could threaten future UK oil drillingLandmark ruling could threaten future UK oil drilling
Key oil project must count full climate impact - court
Supreme Court has ruled Surrey Council should have considered the climate change impacts of new oil wells.
(www.bbc.com)