The platform gets its federal library designation as part of its mission to keep knowledge accessible for all, says founder Brewster Kahle. The Internet Archive is now a federal depository library, ...

There are few organizations dedicated to the gargantuan task of preserving the vast, ever-shifting record of human activity ...

In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive—one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software—in a copyright case with significant ...

A federal judge sided in favor of the four leading publishers in the U.S. who sued the Internet Archive for scanning and lending out numerous digital copies of copyrighted books for free during the ...

The Internet Archive has settled a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit with several major labels over its Great 78 ...

The Great 78 Project aimed to preserve brittle old records for the sake of history, but the labels called it "wholesale theft of generations of music." By Bill Donahue Universal Music Group, Sony ...

Update, 11:58 p.m. ET: The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle wrote a short blog post about what happened. The website was getting tens of thousands of requests per second from someone using AWS, ...

Today, the Internet Archive (IA) defended its practice of digitizing books and lending those e-books for free to users of its Open Library. In 2020, four of the wealthiest book publishers sued IA, ...

Agata Mrva-Montoya is a member of the Executive Committee of the Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 as a non-profit digital ...

The original proposal for the World Wide Web, written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, is an important piece of internet history. It also can't be opened on modern computers. John Graham-Cumming, a British ...