Comments on: Unpublishing the Web http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/24/unpublishing-the-web/ Preservation of Web Resources: a JISC-sponsored project Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:08:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 By: Jordan http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/24/unpublishing-the-web/#comment-4608 Jordan Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:48:56 +0000 http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/24/unpublishing-the-web/#comment-4608 It's less about preservation, but I think a quite plausible reaction to the "permanency" of the web to bury anything unfavourable in a mound of information. If you constantly add content, it makes it harder for people to locate specific information about you because they have to sift through more content. For example, people rarely go past the second page in Google results, so if you can dominate the first two pages with content you want, then this goes a long way to solving the problem. The other thought is in terms of Creative Commons licences. People often don't realise that even if they remove their CC-licensed content from the web, those that received the content while it was on the web still have a licence. As such, they are free to put it back up on the web. Removing access doesn't remove the licence! It’s less about preservation, but I think a quite plausible reaction to the “permanency” of the web to bury anything unfavourable in a mound of information. If you constantly add content, it makes it harder for people to locate specific information about you because they have to sift through more content. For example, people rarely go past the second page in Google results, so if you can dominate the first two pages with content you want, then this goes a long way to solving the problem.

The other thought is in terms of Creative Commons licences. People often don’t realise that even if they remove their CC-licensed content from the web, those that received the content while it was on the web still have a licence. As such, they are free to put it back up on the web.

Removing access doesn’t remove the licence!

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