That Which Does Not Get Copied Becomes Extinct

How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear (and How Secondary Liability Rules Help Resurrect Old Songs) (http://www.boingboing.net/2013/07/05/how-long-copyright-terms-make.html)

with links to this paper

"An analysis of the data demonstrates that the DMCA safe harbor system as applied to YouTube helps maintain some level of access to old songs by allowing those possessing copies (primarily infringers) to communicate relatively costlessly with copyright owners to satisfy the market of potential listeners."

Speaking of Extinction...

To illustrate the adage: "That which does not get copied becomes extinct" here is a page of an old Star Trek zine from 1969 that I am preserving. It is so fragile that I had to disassemble it  (gingerly) and I am scanning it page by page, by hand on a flatbed scanner. I will not be able to reassemble it because the paper is crumbling. What is left of the original will be sent to one of the fanzine archives. There are currently only two copies that I know of being preserved and one is a photocopy.



The zine.

Murder or Suicide? You Decide

From the early 2000s:

"The biggest fear in print fandom is that the internet will kill print zines. If it does, it might be a timely death. If it does, we will call it suicide - not murder - because print zine Editors and contributors will have chosen death instead of change. Fan fiction will go on regardless. Fan fiction is free. Long live free fan fiction."

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