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Rick Prelinger, of the Prelinger Archives, got his letter to the editor published in today’s New York Times. In it he points to the positive free distribution aspects of digitizing and sharing his works under the public domain:
Posted 12 April 2004Our experience may seem counterintuitive, but it has been overwhelmingly positive: the more we give away, the more we actually sell.