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Something I want to ask for quite a while: what is the copyright status of Archive.org? Is it legal? I'm asking not just for this source code collection: they
by fireattack 7y ago
Something I want to ask for quite a while: what is the copyright status of Archive.org? Is it legal?
I'm asking not just for this source code collection: they host lots of DOS and console games on their website, which I highly doubt are in public domain or under a free license. They also have lots of scans of some recent publishings (particularly in my mind, I knew they have plenty of Japanese manga magazines from this decade that are definitely not copyright-free.)
- monocasa 7y agoThey're officially a library in California which gives them a ton of carte blanche wrt to copyright. As for the status of their particular actions, I think it's a lot of grey area.
- userbinator 7y agoI believe they also have a team of lawyers, which helps greatly too.
- girvo 7y agoThey also have a remarkable amount of music albums and ebooks that are available for download, for basically brand-new things, too!
- phendrenad2 7y agoThis really worries me. Could the internet archive be eventually taken down due to too much copyright-infringing stuff?
- claudeganon 7y agoMagazines like Shonen Jump or something else? Any examples?
- fireattack 7y agohttps://archive.org/details/mangamag_Shonen_Magazine https://archive.org/details/mangamag_Shonen_Magazine