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We fully agree with the Ubu stance on copyrighted material and hence quote their statement on the matter:
“If it’s out of print, we feel it’s fair game. Or if something is in print, yet absurdly priced or insanely hard to procure, we’ll take a chance on it. But if it’s in print and available to all, we won’t touch it. The last thing we’d want to do is to take the meager amount of money out of the pockets of those releasing generally poorly-selling materials of the avant-garde. UbuWeb functions as a distribution center for hard-to-find, out-of-print and obscure materials, transferred digitally to the web. Our scanning, say, an historical concrete poem in no way detracts from the physical value of that object in the real world; in fact, it probably enhances it. Either way, we don’t care: Ebay is full of wonderful physical artifacts, most of them worth a lot of money.
Should something return to print, we will remove it from our site immediately. Also, should an artist find their material posted on UbuWeb without permission and wants it removed, please let us know. However, most of the time, we find artists are thrilled to find their work cared for and displayed in a sympathetic context. As always, we welcome more work from existing artists on site.
Let’s face it, if we had to get permission from everyone on UbuWeb, there would be no UbuWeb.”
Aleph.dk, of course, has more humble goals than UbuWeb and a slightly different taste in subject matter. But we applaud their work and admire their effort and we share the belief that certain cultural artifacts should be readily and digitally available when damages to the copyright holders seem unlikely. Should any copyright holder deem our content a violation, it will, naturally, be removed instantly.