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Re:Ask HN: What's the Legality Around Web Archival? by naikrovek on Saturday September 28, 2019 @02:54PM (#21102160)
> I don't think there is such a thing as a special exception to copyright law given to one website.

An example of an exception obtained by the internet archive:

https://archive.org/post/82097/internet-archive-helps-secure...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Legality Around Web Archival? by ilaksh on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:42PM (#21103863)
They hired people to amend the regulation and succeeded, but like I said, its not specific to "the Internet Archive".
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