Oddbean new post about login | logout The Pirate Preservationists - https://reason.com/2023/09/10/the-pirate-preservationists/?ref=thebrowser.com "When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law" a useful reminder that #copyright does not care about preserving culture, no matter how great...
@a0b872c9 copyright cares in principle a lot about preservation—in the U.S., at least, a rich public domain is supposed to be the goal. It's become unmoored from that in practice, of course, but important to keep it centered in policy/political discourse as a primary function of the copyright system!