Will widespread “caching” of web pages interfer with the operation of the Clickshare service?
Yes and no. Absent secondary technology or service arrangements with the major services, it would make it impossible to track every click to copyrighted content. But the contract governing admission to the Clickshare service should take care of this problem administratively. Here’s how: For Prodigy or AOL to access a chargeable Clickshare-enabled page in the first place, they will have to be at minimum a technical member of Clickshare. We are in discussion on these subjects with the online services. And the contractual agreement we expect they will sign with Clickshare Corp. will be worded to make grabbing pages for caching a violation of the one-time, personal-use-only agreement — unless the service also proxies the compensation structure as well. The online service will employ a Clickshare-like structure to track access by its own users to pages cached from the Clickshare service and will provide to Clickshare individual records of each access for billing.
