Re: The Internet Archive robot (fwd)

Brewster Kahle (brewster@archive.org)
Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:05:46 -0700


At 10:13 AM 9/9/96 -0400, Fred Douglis wrote:
>I think it's a worthy endeavor. I haven't seen your answer to the copyright
>question yet,

I included it below.

>but I did see someone else's comment about "preserving" the
>copyright when it's archived. My question is, is that really sufficient? My
>understanding is that by default, people retain the copyright to their web
>pages even if they don't have a specific note to that effect. So while I
>think people may be safe as individuals copying pages for personal use, an
>organization (even a non-profit one) that archives the entire web is another
>ball of wax.
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>This is not a professional legal opinion by any means. Assuming you have
>obtained legal advice on your own position, I'd very much like to hear more
>about it.

in short, the legal issues are not clear. we will obey the laws as they do
become clear, however. I dont mean this to be a cop-out, rather just an
honest answer.

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>By the way: are you storing time-based snapshots, meaning that one could get
>versions of the same page at different times in the past? I looked at your
>web page but didn't see detail about this.

we will be. we are still trying to catch up with the present. then we will
collect as much as we can.

-brewster

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