Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, called the ruling “a blow for libraries, readers, and authors,” in an online statement, and said the company plans to appeal the judge’s decision.

Numerous advocates for the Internet Archive filed amicus briefs in support of its appeal, similarly arguing that the Free Digital Library’s controlled lending as the kind of noncommercial, nonprofit ...

For the National Emergency Library, the Internet Archive was lending out multiple copies of a digital book at once, and the four publishers sued over 127 books in the collection. The Internet ...

F or 26 years, a San Francisco-based digital library has stood in stark opposition to today’s commercial information ecosystem, hallmarked by paywalled periodicals, pricey books and ...

Pandemic-era library programs that helped students access books online could be potentially threatened by an appeals court ruling last week. Libraries across the country, from Carnegie Mellon ...

Internet Archive — the no-cost, nonprofit digital library that has become embroiled in the nationwide battle over copyrights and free speech — is now an official source for government documents.

The Internet Archive’s online lending library recently suffered a big defeat in court. The organization is best known for operating the Wayback Machine, which stores old versions of web pages, a ...

In recent weeks, the digital library dedicated to preserving the internet’s history has been under attack by the internet itself. The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library based in California, was ...

The expansion ended on June 16, 2020, two weeks after the publishers sued. The case is Hachette Book Group Inc et al v. Internet Archive, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 23-1260.

The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, KQED reported ...

The Internet Archive has lent digital copies of books for well over a decade, but only the number of books the library physically had on hand (basically, the same way a brick and mortal library ...

On Friday, a federal judge in New York ruled that the Internet Archive violated U.S. copyright law when it digitized countless physical books from four major book publishers and offered them online.