Apr 142010
So if you think the Library of Congress is “just books,” think of this: The Library has been collecting materials from the web since it began harvesting congressional and presidential campaign websites in 2000. Today we hold more than 167 terabytes of web-based information, including legal blogs, websites of candidates for national office, and websites of Members of Congress.
via blogs.loc.gov
Does anyone else wonder about the legal implications of this? These tweets are not just coming from the USA. Users are around the world. Yet the American Library of Congress will hold the archive? And does this mean that the ideas I tweet are not my own? Does the Library of Congress now own them? did Twitter own them before? I have so many questions…