I think that the consensus is that once it's on the web, it's not private. That's not the same as public, and it expresses the awkward balancing act. That's what the British Library is working through, and the Internet Archive. I think that Brewster Kale had some sort of mesmeric power or a lot of blackmail material in the early web: while librarians were timid, he just went ahead and grabbed everything. Thank goodness!
Practically, Google and all the other search engines out there, are so useful that courts all over seem resistant to finding infringement.
There's a lot of value for fanlore in storing a copy of a linked-to page for future reference. That doesn't necessarily mean publishing or posting, but having something rather than nothing is extremely valuable in really expressing a plural point of view.
Guess I come down on the side of archiving as a relative benefit to us.
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Practically, Google and all the other search engines out there, are so useful that courts all over seem resistant to finding infringement.
There's a lot of value for fanlore in storing a copy of a linked-to page for future reference. That doesn't necessarily mean publishing or posting, but having something rather than nothing is extremely valuable in really expressing a plural point of view.
Guess I come down on the side of archiving as a relative benefit to us.