[WikiEN-l] Re: Merry Christmas from Daniel Brandt (David Gerard)

Fri Dec 30 18:36:41 UTC 2005

Technically they are, of course, doing just that (and even worse at times --
one can often use the Wayback Machine to get free access to articles which
were posted by magazines and newspapers free for a limited amount of time
and then turned into paying-archival links). They even have a little bit
about it on their FAQ page saying they'll happily remove things which people
consider IP violations. Personally I think they are just fortunate that most
people don't know about them and it takes some rooting around to get content
out of them.

Don't get me wrong -- I think it's a wonderful service and an amazing tool.
But let's not claim that there isn't a major copyright issue with keeping
full-site archives of other people's content with the happy intent of making
it available even if the site itself has been taken down or turned into a
pay-for-content site. If its capabilities became well-known (and perhaps if
its servers weren't perpetually down!) they'd be served up DMCA takedown
requests every day, I reckon.

FF

On 12/29/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> > David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au>:
> > The takedown provisions of the DMCA are a matter of
> > great concern, but
> > a
> > DMCA notice when someone is pretty damned clearly
> > *ripping off your
> > stuff* is IMO quite morally sound.
> >
> Better send a DMCA notice to Internet Archive too, as they're "clearly
> *ripping off your stuff*" at
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~rfernand/index2.html
>
> Anthony
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