Internet Archive's Legality Debated in Copyright Suit
An AP newswire article by Joe Mandak, via The Mercury News, reports that:
An ongoing lawsuit between a company and a popular archive of Web pages raises questions about whether the archive unavoidably violates copyright laws while providing a valuable service, according to attorneys and an independent law expert.More here.
The San Francisco-based nonprofit Internet Archive was created in 1996 to preserve Web pages that will eventually be deleted or changed. More than 55 billion pages are stored there.
A health care company claims the archive didn't do enough to protect copyrighted information that helped a competing firm win a trademark suit.
The archive "is just like a big vacuum cleaner, sucking up information and making it available" to anyone with a Web browser, said Scott S. Christie, an attorney representing Healthcare Advocates Inc.
posted by Fergie @ 3/31/2006 01:00:00 PM
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