Here’s a very exciting image of a logo licensed from Getty
The Internet Archive, and the world, has lost hundreds of hours of MTV recordings from ‘80s thanks to an unnamed someone with a credible copyright claim.
So, The Internet Archive had someone upload a few hundred hours of MTV recordings. VJs, Commercials, and of course Music Videos, from the 1980s. Today, it was asked to be taken down by someone who could ask for that and it's down. pic.twitter.com/tZ7Ka2sGMy
— Jason Scott (@textfiles) May 9, 2020
TechDirt argues that the takedown goes against MTV’s founding spirit as a cultural platform and today’s extended copyright lifetime seems unreasonable. “Right now, MTV is not particularly culturally relevant,” they write. “You’d think that someone might jump at the chance to get renewed interest in MTV’s past cultural relevance, but the belief that copyright means we must lock up culture seems to prevail over common sense.” Even their logo relied on public domain government videos, internet liberty activist Parker Higgins pointed out.
