[Reader-list] Pay or free? Newspaper archives not ready for open Web... yet

[Geert Lovink]

Beyond economic models, as Patrice, giving away content is also a 
question of mentality--and mood. Giving content away for free that you 
have worked on for weeks or months, partly, also has got to do with 
your feelings, no to worry, to let go, to trust in the Internet 
(whatever that weird thing maybe--this is nineties thought!). This all 
sounds irrational but that's what it is. This 'problem' cannot be 
solved with the right licenses. To convince people of it as a 'good 
idea'  somehow never worked. You just do it or leave it. Geert