Internet Archive Sued: [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:58 pm
It looks like the Internet Archive ( Way Back Machine (http://web.archive.org) ) is being sued as part of a trademark dispute case between two rival companies. One company used the Way Back Machine to get cached pages to prove their case against the other company, so the other company sued the Internet Archive. What the?!?
The Internet Archive was created in 1996 as the institutional memory of the online world, storing snapshots of ever-changing Web sites and collecting other multimedia artifacts. Now the nonprofit archive is on the defensive in a legal case that represents a strange turn in the debate over copyrights in the digital age.
Linkage Here (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/technology/13suit.html?ex=1278907200&en=377b4b470d4593e0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)
The Internet Archive was created in 1996 as the institutional memory of the online world, storing snapshots of ever-changing Web sites and collecting other multimedia artifacts. Now the nonprofit archive is on the defensive in a legal case that represents a strange turn in the debate over copyrights in the digital age.
Linkage Here (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/technology/13suit.html?ex=1278907200&en=377b4b470d4593e0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)