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Poster: |
Bedford
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September 23, 2002 10:33:59am |
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web
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Subject: |
Re: exclusions from the Wayback Machine |
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"Lawyers for the Church of Scientology contacted the Internet Archive, asserted ownership of materials visible through the Wayback Machine, and those materials have been removed from the Wayback Machine."
Is that all it takes? Why do you betray your fundamental purpose so easily? You should be ashamed. Clearly, most of the material blocked was NOT authored by the COS, let alone owned by them. Are you folks just plain clueless about "Fair Use?" Amazing.
You are setting a course for your own irrelevance.
"The library we are building will help future historians, researchers, and scholars,"
...unless they want to study one of the most notorius internet battles of the 90's, criticism of the COS's heavy handed tactics to block critical information on the internet. Make sure you note clearly your cooperation in that effort.
Maybe you should stop using the terms "historians, researchers, and scholars" because, frankly, your action is insulting to them.
"but we do not see this as the only digital library researchers will use. We encourage others to create digital archives of materials they find of value."
My, what an easy road to take. No, the IA was _the_ opportunity; the trust was given to you who professed such lofty objectives and were given the resources to accomplish same.
And you just dropped the ball, big time.
I encourage you to do your homework (study the Google response to the same thing you went through). You are going to have to come up with better processes to handle this kind of nonsense. It's not too late to get it right. |
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