In a message dated 8/31/2007 9:50:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, R.C.srca@mindspring.com writes: But if you then turn around and make copies of that old edition and start selling them to the others (or even giving them away), then that is republishing that material. If it's a physical book, it's clearly illegal copyright infringement. Yet this is exactly what Ancestry and Google are doing with their cached pages. --- Scott- And what legal precedent can you cite to support your statement above? If, indeed you CAN support it (which I'm quite certain you cannot), why is a site such as The Wayback Machine permitted to continue caching dead webpages? Joan ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour