News Sites Are Locking Out The Internet Archive To Stop AI Crawling. Is The 'Open Web' Closing?. When the World Wide Web went ...

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

One month to the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Library of Congress announced it had begun collecting a massive digital record comprising gigabytes and gigabytes of data culled from ...

The decision locks libraries into an ecosystem that is not in readers' interests. Congress must act. I was raised in the 1980s and ’90s, and for my generation and generations before us, the public ...

Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...