Internet Archive is not a snippet, it is the whole cloth. The whole point of the Internet Archive is to have an archive of the internet as it was and is. Fair

Internet Archive is not a snippet, it is the whole cloth. The whole point of the Internet Archive is to have an archive of the internet as it was and is. Fair use is inherently about picking favorites based on how something is used, for what purpose, and what impact that use has on the original source. A fairly big argument in favor that the Internet Archive falls under fair use is that the Internet Archive do not commercially compete with the original work. Can Facebook make the same argument? Facebook is free to make their own internet archive that is a mirror of the internet. That is to say, they are free to make a copy of the internet as it is without adding anything, without collecting any user information, without serving any advertisements, and without any user generated content. I do not know why Facebook as a for-profit company would do so, but in term of copyright they should be allowed to do so.