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IA has every right to scrape, save, and display. See US Code 108. Robots.txt is mostly meaningless in terms of the law, because it doesn't say anything about co
by matt4077 10y ago
IA has every right to scrape, save, and display. See US Code 108. Robots.txt is mostly meaningless in terms of the law, because it doesn't say anything about copying or distributing–only access, which is outside the scope of copyright.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoI think you mean 17-USC-108. It might surprise you to know that the web extend outside USA and that Fair Use and exemptions for libraries and archives (aside: where's the definition of those two terms in the USC that's being used here?) don't extend to the World. IA may be legal in USA but a whole lot of the websites of the world reside on servers in other countries. There's a minor technical problem with that USC too, it seems. It allows archives to "reproduce no more than one copy of a work". But to compare a website you make a second [admittedly transient] copy to decide whether to re-archive. That's technically not within the scope of that 17USC108 accommodation AFAICT. This may have been solved in US law; I've a feeling there was a modification of EU law to allow transient/cache copies?