http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/technology/13suit.html?eiP88&en77b4b470d4593e0&ex78907200&adxnnl=6&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx21290900-rouEQzAGo8GqbZlwwjPI6A
Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: July 13, 2005
The Internet Archive was created in 1996 as the institutional memory of
the online world, storing snapshots of ever-changing Web sites and
collecting other multimedia artifacts. Now the nonprofit archive is on the
defensive in a legal case that represents a strange turn in the debate
over copyrights in the digital age.
Beyond its utility for Internet historians, the Web page database,
searchable with a form called the Wayback Machine, is also routinely used
by intellectual property lawyers to help learn, for example, when and how
a trademark might have been historically used or violated.
That is what brought the Philadelphia law firm of Harding Earley Follmer &
Frailey to the Wayback Machine two years ago. The firm was defending
Health Advocate, a company in suburban Philadelphia that helps patients
resolve health care and insurance disputes, against a trademark action
brought by a similarly named competitor.
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