archiving stuff – MisbehavingMaiar: Tumblr Archive

meeedeee:

misbehavingmaiar:

HEY it’s been a while since I last harped on about archiving this blog but bear with me:

I’ve got an enormous archive of significant threads and miscellany from MisbehavingMaiar that I’ve been meaning to migrate over to a less volatile platform than tumblr– somewhere less likely to change the…

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meeedeee answered: I think the “ask if you wnat removed” or opt out method is agood way to go. It is the protocol that the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress use. Note: some fans might not agree that you have no right “reblog outside of tumblr.

The other option is to run the posts through the Internet Archive so there is a permanent backup and link to them there: http://searchengineland.com/save-urls-wayback-machine-demand-191150

Oh my gosh! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This is pretty much exactly the kind of answer I was hoping to get. :’D

I know some of my followers said they were also interested in making personal backups of their tumblr RPs? I know it’s a goddamn overwhelming project to do by hand, especially now that some of the xkit functions that would have made that slightly easier are now broken… BUT!!!! That Wayback Machine seems like it’ll be the quickest and easiest way to backup of your stuff in case tumblr goes tits up. 🙂

Thanks again, meeedeee!

Serious Question about Archiving

HEY it’s been a while since I last harped on about archiving this blog but bear with me:

I’ve got an enormous archive of significant threads and miscellany from MisbehavingMaiar that I’ve been meaning to migrate over to a less volatile platform than tumblr– somewhere less likely to change the terms of service on me overnight, or install some unannounced update that makes my content unbrowsable, or some other rebranding administrative horseshit that we’ve all come to know and love from our favorite blue aggregate microblogging platform. (In this case I’ve chosen WordPress.)

My main question is: when reposting a roleplay thread, how does one give due credit, and how does one go about obtaining that credit? I’m especially concerned about dead or deleted blogs whose muns are otherwise unreachable. 😦

On one hand, I feel like starting a roleplay thread on tumblr is implicitly giving your partner the right to post and respond to your words on their blog– that is the entire function of the “RE-BLOG”: You are reposting, on your blog, the content written on your partner’s blog. The formatting assures that your username, and a link to your blog, are attached to your words and are separate from the content added by the person reblogging.
In that sense, starting a roleplay on tumblr is contingent on being able to repost someone else’s content on your own blog, so posting to a different-different blog shouldn’t be a problem– especially considering that tumblr is a public platform, and ostensibly reposting to somewhere like WordPress is just moving it to a different public platform (one that’s actually considerably less public and fraught with peril than tumblr).

But on the other hand: DUH, you ask for permission before moving someone’s content off-site, dumbass!

But on the other-OTHER hand: jfc how do I even get in contact with so many people, some of whom have vanished from tumblr, and ask them if it’s okay to repost their half of the collaborative material we made together? Material that I’ve already reblogged on my blog– changing nothing they wrote and including all the same crediting information contained in their original post– to an almost identical blog on a different platform?

I’m not so much asking for everyone’s opinion on reposting work so much as I’m looking for an honest-to-god concrete legal or moral line in the sand so I can determine what content I need to get express written permission for, and which content I am already entitled to quote off-site with due credit.

If anyone has any kind of previous experience with archiving fanworks and/or collaborative works, I could really use your help! Is there a resource I can use to look this stuff up? What has been your experience with situations like this? Also: is “contact me if you want your content removed” a legitimate route to take?