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Google cache raises copyright concerns: Like other online publishers, The New York Times charges readers to access articles on its Web site. But why pay when you can use Google instead? [...]
While it seems that many Net publishers haven't formed an official policy on Google caching, they say they are examining how it affects their business.
Randy Stearns, executive producer for ABCNews.com, said he's somewhat concerned about his company's news pages being archived temporarily on Google, because readers might access information that is not up-to-date or, in the worst case for a daily news outlet, is inaccurate. Theoretically, if a news report was issued with errors and was subsequently fixed on the publisher's site, but the erroneous report still existed in a cached version, it could raise legal issues for the publisher, he said.