Dear all,
As you may all know The Royal Library (National Library of Sweden) has been archiving the Swedish part of the web since late 1996 with methods similar to the Internet Archive (the archive behind Alexa). We do not yet have a service like Alexa to give access to the material, partly because of legal problems (which we are trying to solve by the way, by influencing future Swedish legislation). Our activities are quite well known in Sweden, but so far we only got one letter of protest from a web site owner, an
d that protest was withdrawn when we explained WHY we are archiving everything.
Recently Finland became the second nation to archive its web, other countries may follow. What about Britain?
Best regards,
Frans
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Frans Lettenstrom, Ph.D.
Executive Officer, Information Technology
BIBSAM (Dept for National Coordination and Development)
The Royal Library, National Library of Sweden
Mail: Box 5039, SE-102 41 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 4634436
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Fax: +46 8 4634274
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URL: http://www.kb.se/bibsam/frans/frans.htm
Visiting address: Biblioteksgatan 25, Stockholm
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At 12.40 1997-09-09 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Following Geoff Lane's original posting to this newsgroup about the
>activities of Alexa, CLA has sent an email to Alexa pointing out their
>possible infringement of the CLA website's copyright restrictions.
>
>Although the issue of privacy and exclusion from the Alexa archiving (by
>using robot exclusion tags in site HTML) both appear on the Alexa website
>(alexa.com), we could find no mention of copyright.
>
>Clearly, the possible implications of copyright infringement go far beyond
>the CLA website and any person or organisation that puts material on the
>Internet and protects it with copyright should be aware of Alexa's
>activities.
>
>For information, I have included below a copy of the entire email as sent to
>Alexa.
>
>Robert Dyer
>CLA Webmaster
>
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>
>I am writing having read the information available on your site with regards
>Alexa's archiving of World Wide Web site pages.
>
>I am advising you that all material stored on the CLA web server (all pages
>beginning with the URL: http://www.cla.co.uk) is the copyright of the CLA
>and restrictions on what you may do with this material are clearly stated.
>
>In particular, I draw your attention to the restriction which states that
>you may only store (CLA site) material on a computer or cache "for a period
>not exceeding 30 days".
>
>If you have archived material from the CLA website which is over 30 days old
>then you are in breach of our copyright.
>
>If this is the case then I am formally giving you notice to remove all CLA
>site material over 30 days old from your site within 10 days of the date of
>this message and to continue to do so in future unless otherwise advised in
>writing by the CLA.
>
>We are however willing to consider favourably any application for permission
>to copy the material on our site for archival purposes, subject to
>appropriate conditions to prevent misuse and/or misrepresentation.
>
>I note from your website that you comply with the Robot exclusion standard.
>However, this does not exonerate you from your responsibility to comply with
>copyright laws. We have no objection to the principle of archiving of the
>Web (indeed, it may prove to be a valuable service to the community); but
>the cavalier approach to our intellectual property (and indeed that of every
>other site which you archive without the
>consent of the copyright holder) cannot be tolerated.
>
>Please acknowledge receipt of this message and of your intentions with
>respect to our copyright material.
>
>I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
>
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>
>ENDS
>
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