The (Unofficial) Apple Archive, a site which for a few days gathered a good thousand clips and videos of Apple, of all kinds and from all eras, has been emptied of its content (read Apple Archive: a ton of Apple clips with new ones on AirPower, iPad and Mac).
Its author, Sam Henri Gold, received from Vimeo as many emails as his site contained clips, to inform him that each one was removed from the hosting platform, at Apple’s request.
La Pomme pointed to each of the videos (old as well as current ads, videos of keynote or advertisements never seen, like that of the AirPower) and asserted its rights with regard to them. From the start, this conclusion seemed inevitable given the mass of content collected, on which copyrights are applied and some of which were designed exclusively for internal use.
It is because a large archive account on YouTube, equivalent in its content, had ended up receiving the same response from Apple, that Sam Gold had undertaken to create this site, with a more organized format.
It is unfortunate, however, that many of these advertisements – some of which date back to the Lisa – are not brought together in one place, they help tell the story of Apple and computers in general. The teenager had posted about 1,000 videos online, he said still have 14,000 waiting to be published. An editor, Rogue Amoeba, had given him financial support for hosting on Vimeo and allowing it to operate without ad banners.
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