Stardate 20010927.0654 (On Screen): This article talks about a group of people who, in the immediate aftermath of the WTC bombing, started archiving "rapidly changing websites" (among other things, quite possibly web logs) in order to capture and save their reactions to the event. Their intent is to republish on October 11. Isn't this a violation of copyright? Suppose, for example, that
USS Clueless was one of the sites they captured. No-one from this project has contacted me to ask for permission to republish my material. While no explicit copyright notice appears on this page, under the Berne Convention that is not needed; copyright is automatic unless explicitly waived, and there is also no waiver on this site. But it's not just web logs; they're going to be republishing pages from mainline commercial news sites which have explicit copyright notices. Irrespective of the historical value of this exercise, I see no legal excuse for it.
(discussion in progress)
