Steal the archived content of an expired domain from Archive.org?

[Charybdis]

Hello,

if I buy an expired domain name, is it legal to go to Archive.org, and copy and paste the archived content of the former website into my "new" website?

If the expired content only exists on Archive.org, then is it public domain?
If this content is copyrighted, how can Archive.org store it?

[biggedon]

Hello,

if I buy an expired domain name, is it legal to go to Archive.org, and copy and paste the archived content of the former website into my "new" website?

If the expired content only exists on Archive.org, then is it public domain?
If this content is copyrighted, how can Archive.org store it?

storage of copywritten material, is quite different than using copywritten materal for your own personal gains.


may not be the best example but....

it's legal for you to own copywritten music you purchased, but not resample parts or whole of the music in your songs.....without expressed permission.


but i know what you want to do and i have "saved" some images, content, etc from archieved pages as well.

it's about how you "recycle" it, if you can rewrite the "concept of the content", in your own words.

then that can be considered as creativity.


customed designed images, :watermarked:, etc, may be an issue.


check legal, but good question to bring up.

imo...

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i'd also ask admins to change the title of this thread to "Legality of using the archived content of an expired domain from Archive.org"

it doesn't show an intent

imo...

[Charybdis]

I am only interested in text content.

I don't want to rewrite it, because I want search engines to see the continuity of the content of the website.

[charlescarreon]

All content is "copyrighted" from the moment it is created. Registration is an important formality that entitles you to obtain special, powerful legal remedies. See my essay on this topic at Charles' Primer of Online Media Law

As a practical matter, if the content is that good, the creator could, conceivably come after you. But if they didn't think their work was worth keeping on the Net for the cost of a registration fee, how likely is that?