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Re:Help Us Keep the Archive Free, Accessible, and Private by ghaff on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @11:43PM (#13068543)
Government documents including, I assume, web pages are in the public domain.
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Re:Help Us Keep the Archive Free, Accessible, and Private by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:15AM (#13068841)
That's irrelevant; the issue isn't copyright, but the implementation of the Internet Archive, which applies robots.txt retroactively to archived versions of pages as well as respecting it currently.
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Re:Help Us Keep the Archive Free, Accessible, and Private by jeff_tyrrill on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:29AM (#13069466)
But the reason the Internet Archive applies robots.txt retroactively is copyright, as explained in a sibling to the grandparent.
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