Tuesday, April 04, 2006

nternet Archive's value, legality debated in copyright suit

Internet Archive's value, legality debated in copyright suit
by JOE MANDAK, Associated Press
Mercury News [San Jose], publication date: 31 March 2006
"The archive 'is just like a big vacuum cleaner, sucking up information and making it available' to anyone with a Web browser, said Scott S. Christie, an attorney representing Healthcare Advocates Inc.

'That has some social value, but in doing so they are grabbing information that they're not entitled to,' he said. 'More importantly, they are telling people that they will take it off the shelf if you do a certain thing a certain way - but that didn't happen in this case.'"

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