9-22-96. WaPo: "In California, Creating a Web of the Past" Brewster Kahle's massive data-collection devices and programmed computers are surfing and saving everything they can find on the global computer network. At the end of this year that then will be updated as fast as his computers can do their vacuum cleaning, likely every few months. But the project also has piqued the interest of privacy rights advocates and copyright lawyers, who question how the archive will use its data. "I'm dealing with every single intellectual property issue out there," Kahle said. "Privacy, copyright, pornography, import-export -- we've got it all." He is forming a for-profit venture that will sell the Web searching and storing technology developed at the archives. Researchers from AT&T Corp. and Xerox Corp. have asked to study the archive. ----- http://jya.com/webspy.txt (7 kb) WEB_spy