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 Internet Archive has lost its appeal after book publishers successfully sued to block the Open Libraries Project from lending digital scans of books for free online. Judges for the Second Circuit ...

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 ...

In a swift decision, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 lower court decision finding the Internet Archive's program to scan and lend print ...

Attorneys representing the Internet Archive are determining their next steps to try to save the website’s free e-book lending program after an appeals court recently upheld an earlier ruling that it ...

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 compilation of PW's coverage of Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books, with the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you step into the headquarters of the Internet Archive on a Friday after lunch, when it offers public tours, chances are you’ll be greeted by its founder and merriest cheerleader, Brewster Kahle.