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November 21, 2004
Internet Archive Admissable as Evidence
According to The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, "In a pretrial evidentiary ruling, a magistrate judge in the Northern District of Illinois held that “snapshots” taken by the Internet Archive that depict web pages as they appeared in the past are admissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence. The court rejected the arguments of plaintiff Telewizja Polska USA that the archived pages constituted hearsay and that the Internet Archive was an “unreliable source.” " So I guess you could say the court has accepted the Internet Archive as a reliable source, and IA's valid use as a research tool is firmly established.
[Spotted on Librarian in Black]
