Corporations Controlling Culture
Corporate interests, alongside changes in media distribution, are eroding the public’s ability to construct and access its own cultural record. As more digital content is being provided to individuals, libraries, and archives solely through streaming and temporary licensing deals, rather than through permanent ownership, cultural objects such as sound recordings, books, television shows, and films are at constant risk of being removed from platforms without ever being archived. This means that cultural expression is vanishing from public access largely at the whims of media conglomerates. Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record seeks to inform the public, creators, institutions, and policymakers about the breadth and scale of cultural vanishing by highlighting recent instances of loss, identifying key causes of these losses, and showing why empowering public-serving libraries and archives financially, culturally, and legally is a necessity for ensuring that our cultural record remains built by the public, and accessible to it for generations to come.
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Folksonomies: culture copyright free culture
Taxonomies:
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