u/OrangeAugust

I have a section of my website dedicated to an actor, and I found an OLD fansite that hasn't been updated in 24 years. I felt like it was fine to use some of their stuff on my website partly for archiving reasons. There was information on there that you'd never find anywhere else (articles copied and pasted from sites that no longer exist, transcripts from talk show appearances that you can't find anywhere on the internet, snippets of information someone found in a random print article, etc). I figure a website that has been up but not updated since 2002 will inevitably disappear. Well, I was right. A couple months after I discovered it, it was taken down and is now only available on the Wayback Machine.

So, while I didn't feel like anything was wrong with posting some of the articles and other information on my website as sort of a way of preserving it on the internet, there are also "fan encounters" on that website that I'd love to post on my site with links back to the archived site, BUT at the top of the page, the webmaster said not to post those anywhere else without permission. Well, none of them have anyone's full names, they were all from the late 90s and early 2000s, and the website is now gone from the internet, only available through the Wayback machine. There was also no contact info for the webmaster on the site so I can't ask. I feel like these are fun to read and now they are nowhere else on the internet.

What are the thoughts on this? Should I honor that request even though it's 24 years later, the website is now only available on the wayback machine, and there is no identifying information on the authors of these stories? Or is it ok for me to put these on my site for that very reason?

One purpose of this website is to archive/preserve fandom content, especially stuff that you wouldn't find through a search engine.

Anyone have any links to videos of the show that are actually focused mostly on the band? I get that the whole idea of The Sphere is the experience with the giant screen and all that, but I want to also see the band playing. Most of the videos I find are from people sitting a mile away and mostly focusing on the video instead of showing the band up close at all.