Archive.org and copyright?

[cache]

I am wondering how can archive.org make copies of all the websites. Are there any copyright laws on copying websites?

 

[LouisR]

Hehe, okay it is easy!

1. Do you have the right to breath if there is air around you?

If your answer is "yes", then explain to me what law gives you that right?

(hint: "there is no such law, because there is no need")

I haven't used NamePros for anything other than advertising in the past, so here goes my first real post:

"The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." - The US Constitution.

So if you're in the US, you've got a right to breathe air.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

I am across this in a random browsing moment on a different site and thought it was interesting:

Remove your URL or Google Groups Post
http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller?cmd=reload&lastcmd=login

Also works for removing your cached site/page, if interested

-Allan :gl:

 

[cache]

so, who is paying for archive.org?

They don't. I realize that long ago ".org" meant something beyond just another TLD, but...

 

[Peter]

taken from thir about us page cache

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.

http://www.archive.org/about/about.php

also notice:-

http://www.archive.org/donate/

 

[sm]

clever so all it takes to avoid law suits is to take the begging bowl out, and put it up Probably gives the impression that you gonna get nothin from me if you plan to sue me :lol: - just kidding.

 

[AlexK]

It's perfectly legal. And why would anyone not want to be "listed" there?
They don't make profit from it, either

 

[IAmAllanShore]

It's perfectly legal. And why would anyone not want to be "listed" there?
They don't make profit from it, either

Honest question:
Did you bother reading the whole thread before posting this?
-Allan

 

[DNQuest.com]

Honest question:
Did you bother reading the whole thread before posting this?
-Allan

I thought the exact same thing, then when I read your post, I just bust out laughing.

 

[cache]

I assume that archive.org has good intention and not want to make money.
But why would amazon.com/alexa want to donate the contents for free?

I also read somewhere about the "creative commons" license, is this popular now?

I'd like to share some interesting read:

http://www.fairgamed.org/xenunet5.htm

A website was banned by waybackmachine.org/archive.org and google

textz.com text copying.

 

[jberryhill]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-12-06-14-30-41
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- European publishers warned Tuesday that they cannot keep allowing Internet search engines such as Google Inc. to make money from their content.

"The new models of Google and others reverse the traditional permission-based copyright model of content trading that we have built up over the years," said Francisco Pinto Balsemao, the head of the European Publishers Council, in prepared remarks for a speech at a Brussels conference.

 

[sm]

interesting news..... i feel though, that preventing google from indexing content is not going to help publishers ......the majority are not going to support this stand (except possibly the ones that run subscription based services or news sites.......but even that is debatable). Of course, there's always going to be politically-oriented folks who'll cry foul, but the majority of the publishers will not even bother.

apart from that.. the other interesting news is that WebmasterWorld has recently started blocking all search engine spiders from indexing it's content (over one million pages were removed from the google index)....

 

[cache]

interesting. It looks like it is not complaining google's caching, but
the :
"because its news site looks similar to the one seen by AFP subscribers"...
"Many stories carry a small image, or thumbnail, along with the headline and the first sentence or two. Visitors can click on the headline to read the full story at the source Web site.".

So a headline+first sentence is breaking copyright, that does not sound quite
right.

 

[tzmartin]

More specifically (dealing with copyright) WayBackMachine has excellent insight about the "preservation" of information...

http://www.archive.org/about/about.php#5