> In a message dated 8/31/2007 7:19:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, > wmwillis@earthlink.net writes: > > Sometimes the information is no longer on the original page, so I > have to fall back on the Cached version. On Friday, August 31, 2007 5:22 PM MT, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: >In that instance the cached page serves the purpose of preserving history. Unless the page was in error, and was changed or taken down for that reason. And in any case it's the author's right to do that — who are we to say "once you've put up a page on the internet you have no choice but to leave it there forever"? That's extremely disrespectful of the authors. Web sites that maintain those pages outside of the author's context are clearly violating their copyright. This isn't settled law, but in time I think courts will come to realize this. Scott

Possibly But whose to say that the information that was up there originally was good solid information? I'm a reasonably intelligent person, and I'm quite able to make my own choices about what's good information and what's not. But more to the point, sometimes the information comes down simply because the person wanted to put something unrelated up. Why shouldn't I be able to use their previous version? If a hard copy author happens to issue an update of one of his books, and deletes some of the previous data (perhaps for no other reason than he wanted to add something else, but wanted to keep the page count down), I can still use the earlier addition if I want. And calling that disrespectful is silly. Bill On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:40 PM, Scott R. C. Anderson wrote: >> In a message dated 8/31/2007 7:19:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, >> wmwillis@earthlink.net writes: >> >> Sometimes the information is no longer on the original page, so I >> have to fall back on the Cached version. > > On Friday, August 31, 2007 5:22 PM MT, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: >> In that instance the cached page serves the purpose of preserving >> history. > > Unless the page was in error, and was changed or taken down for > that reason. And in any case it's the author's right to do that — > who are we to say "once you've put up a page on the internet you > have no choice but to leave it there forever"? That's extremely > disrespectful of the authors. > > Web sites that maintain those pages outside of the author's context > are clearly violating their copyright. This isn't settled law, but > in time I think courts will come to realize this. > > Scott > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COPYRIGHT- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message