Comment by nxobject
9 days ago
Brewster’s concerns about the historical record are real and will eventually affect news orgs: their journalism may as well be ephemeral now without separate archiving. If a Wikipedia contributor, for example has to jump through extra hoops to get a stable link of a Times article, why wouldn’t they end up choosing an equally reliable WaPo article instead?
Tragedy of the commons.
Given the Times and the Guardian are British they will be archived by the British Library, as it's a legal obligation.
That doesn't mean anything American library that doesn't pay authors Public Lending Right fees gets to.