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More than once, archive.org has hosted something I though was not possible under the current copyright regime. MAME ROMs, old time radio shows, and, well, this
by ipsin 10y ago
More than once, archive.org has hosted something I though was not possible under the current copyright regime.
MAME ROMs, old time radio shows, and, well, this.
So for someone who's not paying attention, does anyone have an explanation of how they're allowed to do this?
For example, do they have special dispensation from the Librarian of Congress?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoThe Internet Archive receives an exemption from the DMCA and other copyright law for the majority of the works it hosts.
- homarp 10y agoAnd the Archive is actively working to show the Copyright Office what needs to be preserved and therefore why they need to be exempted from DMCA e.g. http://archive.org/about/dmca.php http://archive.org/about/dmca.php
- ghaff 10y agoI don't believe that's the case. The Internet Archive works in a legal gray area but manages by clearly being not for profit and by readily honoring removal requests, including retroactively honoring robots.txt instructions.
- 33degrees 10y ago> So for someone who's not paying attention, does anyone have an explanation of how they're allowed to do this? Many of these mixtapes are in a legal grey area, technically copyright infringement but tolerated by the rights holders because of the promotional value. My feeling is that either archive.org are not aware of this content, or they are but will simply comply with any take down requests they receive.