Archive.org has a special exemption granted by the Library of Congress to break copyright protection for the purpose of making archives; and I believe it does s

Archive.org has a special exemption granted by the Library of Congress to break copyright protection for the purpose of making archives; and I believe it does so only when the copyright holder cannot be identified to ask for permission after a reasonable attempt has been made. It does not have a blank check to archive the entire Internet without permission -- if it did, you'd be able to read every New York Times article published since they went online there. See https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360004716091-Wayback-Machine-General-Information https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360004716091-Wayb...: """Do you collect all the sites on the Web? No, the Archive collects web pages that are publicly available. We do not archive pages that require a password to access, pages that are only accessible when a person types into and sends a form, or pages on secure servers. Pages may not be archived due to robots exclusions and some sites are excluded by direct site owner request."""