The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other ...

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 ...

A federal judge in New York found that the Internet Archive, a nonprofit dedicated to providing "universal access to all knowledge," had infringed on publishers' copyrights by running an unlicensed ...

Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco, 2010. (Beatrice Murch / CC BY 2.0) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

If The Internet Archive (IA) fails to appeal a recent court ruling that blocked it from scanning and lending out books like a library, it would be a tragedy of historic proportions. That is the view ...

When libraries around the US began closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Internet Archive (IA) responded by creating a “National Emergency Library,” a collection of 1.4 million ...

A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan their own book collections. A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan ...

Two and a half years ago, the Internet Archive made a decision that pissed off a lot of writers—and embroiled it in a lawsuit that many netizens fear could weaken the archive, its finances, and its ...

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