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Poster: bluesnooze Date: Mar 21, 2023 7:12pm
Forum: opensource Subject: Item removed

Hi. I run the Atlantic Insight collection. These are 40 year old magazines that literally are the only intact copies in existence. No library, and there are only 35 in the world that have the bound incomplete copies, has this material. It is literally unique.

I've been working five years on this material and to the best of my knowledge having researched this for the past five years there is no copyright holder available who has the right to request its removal. Contributors to the magazine sold their rights at the time of publication and the magazine rights were sold off to parties that vanished decades ago.

My latest upload, https://archive.org/details/AtlanticInsight-100-October-1987 has been removed without notice, which I can only presume means it received a complaint.

Is this without appeal? It was my intention to host the world's only complete reference Atlantic Insight collection on the Internet Archive and the material simply does not exist elsewhere.

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Poster: worldrambler Date: Mar 21, 2023 7:46pm
Forum: opensource Subject: Re: Item removed

IA is doing some server maintenance now so that page might just be temporarily unavailable. One thing you might do regardless is to make your material less scarce and "unique" by sharing it not only on IA but also on torrent sites, IPFS and other file sharing platforms.

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Poster: bluesnooze Date: Mar 21, 2023 7:57pm
Forum: opensource Subject: Re: Item removed

Thank you for the information. I'll look into your suggestions.

The real benefit of this material being on the Internet Archive is it gets OCR scanned with a searchable text file. Researchers can now find this material with an online search.

This has never happened before. There is no way to search anything in the issues not yet posted on the Internet Archive unless you physically go to one of the 35 reference libraries in just 3 countries and look at the physical magazine. No index of contents exists.

This is as valuable as the magazine being online in the first place.

Anyway, thanks again for the reply. You took a load off my mind.