Traditionally in America, the value of newspapers is predominantly their up to date news, not their archive, which traditionally could be accessed and read for free by anybody that cares to visit the local library. You pay for recent newspapers, the archive is free.

Anyway, intellectual property is a dumb joke. It will never benefit the little man, you don't have the resources to lawyer up like the big corps do, so screw the whole premise. If you're not taking what you want for free, you're a servile worm crawling around on your belly in a futile attempt to earn favor from inhuman corporations that will never notice you, let alone reward you. Stand up, man.