The copyright issue has to be solved very soon because digital archiving process can't wait too long or the job will be growing too massive. The question about economical policy has to be clear. Lets say in Finland we heard all the same story especially on small town museums - cutbacks in all levels are normal way to answer economical problems. The development is always fragmentary, contradictory and usually not-equality. Parlamentarism has always been parlamentsarism if you look it in level of ordinary citizens.
Technology is based on politics of economy growth ideology.
But it is also giving us inside weapons for critical possibilities of representation and alternative politics. It's a hard way to realize utopias to reality. But we need to try, always.