Who owns history? How historical footage is hidden and monetised [video]
Counterpoint: archiving costs money, even for public domain content. Who pays the archivist, if not the users of the archive? And the more obscure a work is, the fewer users of that work the cost can be spread over, so the oldest and most obscure materials would have the highest access cost.It is tricky, because one could argue government could take on the role of archiver, but do we really trust government to maintain an unfiltered archive indefinitely? Or we may say archives should be privately funded and there should be redundancy, but then how do we guarantee continuity of funding?