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The copies made during visiting a website are treated as "incidental" copies under the law. What matters is that the author has decided to publish their work an
by jahewson 11y ago
The copies made during visiting a website are treated as "incidental" copies under the law. What matters is that the author has decided to publish their work and that you are viewing their publication. Of course if you start duplicating their publication for your own ends, then it stops being incidental.
- Silhouette 11y agoCareful: The law in this area isn't necessarily the same in all jurisdictions. Even within the EU there have been relatively few test cases so far and unless I've missed something recent the position with temporary copies is still not entirely clear. Sadly, the past few years have seen lawyers argue the minutiae of EU directives and national IP laws to the extent that any original intention or moral or economic justification for copyright has long been forgotten. Basically, this has become exactly the kind of area that gets lawyers and legal systems a bad reputation, where sometimes quite significant amounts of power are being assigned based on obscure technicalities in how laws at different levels of government have been drafted.