I heard that the new copyright law might make it illegal even to download copyrighted web pages for viewing without permission. Is that true?
Whenever you view a webpage, it is downloaded from the server on which it resides and is temporarily stored in a cache on your computer. There has been some discussion about whether or not this constitutes making a copy of the work. Such viewing of web resources has so far generally been considered to be acceptable because of the temporary nature of caching and the necessity of doing so in order to view Web-based information. If you then print it or save it permanently to a disk, you are making a copy of the work and would have to consider copyright restrictions.
