From http://search-engines-web.com/ writes: “An Excerpt from article about Internet Archive’s fight against copyright restrictions at: http://theinquirer.net/?article=17785
Internet Archive has copyright problems
THE DIGITAL Millennium Copyright Act is proving a headache for those hoping to preserve software and data.
The US Internet Archive, which makes archival copies of software and data, said it was technically impossible to do its job because of the Act which forbids copying software.
Because the life of a magnetic disk is only 10 to 30 years, the Archive would have to copy the stuff every few years to preserve it which would be illegal.
This week the group announced on its site here that the Copyright Office has ordered a temporary exemption for the group’s work.
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