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July 13, 2005

Internet Archive sued under DMCA and CFAA

Created in 1996, the Internet Archive is an extremely valuable tool for researching historical website content. In fact, my most recent use of the WayBackMachine was to look at a product that was the subject of a recent Federal Circuit decision. The decision upheld a district court decision requiring the product be pulled from the market. Without the Internet Archive, I would have never been able to actually see the disputed product.

According to Web archive sued over use in another suit, it "is also routinely used by intellectual property lawyers to help learn, for example, when and how a trademark might have been historically used or violated."

However, the Internet Archive was sued last week by a company who claims that "the access to its old Web pages, stored in the Internet Archive's database, was unauthorized and illegal." The lawsuit claims copyright infringement, violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Posted by Melody Wirz at 09:38 AM.
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