@ernie @lxo @brewsterkahle I don't have experience with courts in this area, but you're probably right and thus an LLM might be an area to explore, not as an arguement in court but as a practical method (of burning more energy than is needed) and to help people find and understand works.

I get the sense that the corporate actors have minimal or no interest in #archives, only until they need to cite something, then they appreciate it. Many websites are #copyright. How then can a distinction be made between someone requesting a copyrighted webpage and a copyrighted book. Is it a matter of payment? Webpages are delivered freely, unlike #books but if one were to bring together enough #webpages with enough quotes from a book or film you might be able to collect something that encompasses the entire work. Should works be immune from being archived because someone demands payment for them?

Maybe #lawsuits of this nature are a sign that in an epoch where everything seems to be on a cost curve approaching zero, people are desperate to claw back as much income as possible and are now starting to attack basic #institutions. Maybe a universal basic income (#UBI) is needed to allow artists and writers of all ilks to survive, including #journalists, whose plight seems to be a recurring topic here in #Australia.