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 ...

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. What began in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four major book publishers have filed suit against the Internet Archive for copyright violations relating to the Open Library project, setting the stage for a major legal fight over one of the ...

UPDATE: The Internet Archive has announced that it will be closing the National Emergency Library two weeks early on June 16 rather than June 30. The reason is the lawsuit detailed in the original ...

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What just happened? Non-profit organization Internet Archive was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996, as a digital library conceived to provide free access to digital knowledge via the internet. Now, ...

If you're a book nerd who misses spending hours at the local library, thumbing through thousands of titles and roaming the shelves, then Library Explorer might help ease the sadness. Currently in beta ...