On 01/04/12 22:01, John Erling Blad wrote:
Archiving a page should be pretty safe as long as the
archived copy is
only for internal use, that means something like OTRS. If the archived
copy is republished it _might_ be viewed as a copyright infringement.
Still note that the archived copy can be used for automatic
verification, ie extract a quote and check that against a stored value,
without infringing any copyright. If a publication is withdrawn it might
be an indication that something is seriously wrong with the page, and no
matter what the archived copy at WebCitation says the page can't be trusted.
Its really a very difficult problem.
Jeblad
That assumes that a web page disappearing happens only because it is
withdrawn due to factual errors. In practise, I find broken urls because
they changed the CMS, the urls have been completely changed, the article
is now behind a paywall, the domain expired...
None of which is an indicator of the quality of the original page being bad.