[Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

[Rodan Bury]

2010/8/24 <wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk>

> Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> >
> > I wanted to suggest this for a long time. I see two more reasons for
> this:
> >
> > - We are often copying free images or text from various sites (for
> > example flickr but other ones too). It happens that these sites go
> > offline or change their licenses later. Having such an archive, archived
> > by an independent organization, would be indisputable proof of copyright
> > status.



> The internet archive [...] respects copyright and robots.txt and applies
> the
> directives retroactively.
>

And so does Wikiwix. Wikiwix do respect robots.txt. Linterweb's advocate
certified there is no legal issue with Wikiwix.

Regards, Dodoïste