Can a Web Crawler Enter a Contract?

John Ottaviani writes about Internet Archive v. Shell, in which a web site owner put a copyright notice on her web site, then sued sued a web archiving service for copyright infringement. Among the questions raised by the case is, can an automated web crawler enter into a binding contract? Via Techdirt.

Posted by Stuart Sierra in News on Fri Mar 16, 2007. Link to this post. Tagged with copyright, intellectual property, fair use, archiving, crawler, infringement.