{"id":100,"date":"2010-06-21T00:51:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T23:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2010-06-21T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T23:54:11","slug":"murdoch-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/murdoch-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my <a title=\"Murdoch's enclosure of the historical commons\" href=\"http:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/the-enclosure-of-the-historical-commons-2-murdoch\/\" target=\"_self\">previous post<\/a>, some news:<\/p>\n<p>The British Library has <a title=\"Paid Content: British Library heeds Murdoch\" href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-british-library-heeds-murdochs-digital-newsprint-warning\/\">backed down<\/a> from digitising and putting online out of copyright editions of the Times. This raises serious questions about its whole mission: are they resigned to the irreplaceable newspapers in Colindale crumbling over time, along with their deteriorating microfilm copies, without any digital preservation at all? It also sets a dangerous precedent in ceding public domain material to a private owner. Whilst this has no force in law, it has an intimidatory aspect. Still worse is that <a title=\"Practices of British Newspapers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2010\/jun\/14\/letters-media-guardian\">some of this material<\/a> was not even created by The Times. <a title=\"Techdirt: Times copies blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091120\/0223387019.shtml\">Plus \u00e7a change&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And as a footnote, given The Times&#8217; building of a paywall, Glyn Moody wonders whether commercial strategies should trump the public record: &#8220;<a title=\"Glyn Moody on retractions and paywalls\" href=\"http:\/\/opendotdotdot.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/should-retractions-be-behind-paywall.html\" target=\"_blank\">Should retractions be behind a paywall?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my previous post, some news: The British Library has backed down from digitising and putting online out of copyright editions of the Times. This raises serious questions about its whole mission: are they resigned to the irreplaceable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/murdoch-redux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[40,10,39],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commons","tag-british-library","tag-historical-commons","tag-murdoch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anterotesis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}