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Is Copyright Getting In The Way Of Us Preserving Our History?

Posted at 7:30AM Friday 26 Feb 2010

Historians 100 years hence will have an abundance of source material about how ordinary lives were lived during the 21st century thanks to the unprecedented way we leave traces through websites, email, Twitter and social networks such as Facebook.

Well, that's the theory. In practice, most of this living history will be discarded in digital dustbins unless something is done about it.

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