By: Jason Lee Miller | Source: webpronews.com

The Web and artificial intelligence have brought about some surreal, science fiction like questions. The most recent mind-bending concept is whether or not robots can enter into contracts – that is, is a Web crawler implicitly entering a contract posted on a website announcing copyright conditions?

A little while back, we explored the idea that RSS, as an automatic distribution agent, could imply permission to republish. But that involves two human parties, essentially, with a technical agent in between.

A court battle in Colorado, however, focuses on claims brought by Suzanne Shell against the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which holds in searchable perpetuity pages that appear on the Web, for future historical reference.

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