Michael Hoffman: Suppose a media outlet got swallowed by private equity and went dark. Suppose, further, that one had proactively archived a slice of that media outlet’s content in one’s own database. What, hypothetically, are the ethics and best practices around making that data available to the public?

Suppose a media outlet got swallowed by private equity and went dark. Suppose, further, that one had proactively archived a slice of that media outlet’s content in one’s own database. What, hypothetically, are the ethics and best practices around making that data available to the public?