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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 03:15 pm (UTC)
If that's the case, the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine/Google might stand on the same legal teeter tot. Or not.

Last I heard, Google was struggling in the EU over their ability to cache and index websites.

Here in the US in 2006 Caching/indexing was found to be legal
http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1457-Search-Engines-Indexing-and-Copyright-Law

But newspaper attorneys are trying to get the issue revisited (when profits get involved, law gets weird)
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091113/1357386926.shtml

The other issue is caching images. The 2006 case allowing Google to cache thumbnails is here (and I suspect is part of what Wikis use to argue they can use thumbnails - that and the fair use education exceptions).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Google_Inc.

If I can find articles about how the UK/EU is handing caching/archiving etc, I'll put them in another link.

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