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Poison Pill for Government Web-Site Archivists?

July 25, 2005 / Leave a comment

What would happen if projects such as the California Digital Library's project to preserve online government materials were stifled by copyright law?

The CDL project and similar ones could be endangered by aggressive enforcement of copyright law because many government web sites contain copyrighted material.

Now that the Internet Archive is being sued by a healthcare company that says the Internet Archive illegally stored copies of copyrighted materials (Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit By TOM ZELLER Jr. New York Times, July 13, 2005) we cannot help but wonder if similar copyright infringement suits will hurt efforts to preserve government web sites. Continue reading →

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