Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive
by ghaff on Monday April 17, 2017 @09:51AM
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More generally, the Internet Archive does a bunch of things that make it harder/uninteresting to pursue for copyright issues.
1.) That you list is a big one. With respect to websites, the ability to change robots.txt goes a long way toward creating an assumption of ownership even retroactively.
2.) The IA is non-commercial.
3.) The IA doesn't have deep pockets.
Add it all up and although much of what the IA does archive is in a pretty murky legal area, the fact that it's willing to take most things down and that there isn't a big payday to be gained from suing them, leaves them mostly free to do what they do.
1.) That you list is a big one. With respect to websites, the ability to change robots.txt goes a long way toward creating an assumption of ownership even retroactively.
2.) The IA is non-commercial.
3.) The IA doesn't have deep pockets.
Add it all up and although much of what the IA does archive is in a pretty murky legal area, the fact that it's willing to take most things down and that there isn't a big payday to be gained from suing them, leaves them mostly free to do what they do.