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 ...

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A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought by four book publishers. A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought by four book publishers ...

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 ...

A federal judge has ruled in favor of a group of book publishers who sued the nonprofit Internet Archive in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic for scanning and lending digital copies of ...

Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library. Notably, the appeals court’s ruling rejects the Internet Archive’s argument that its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...