A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac ...

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 ...

Major record labels are suing the Internet Archive, accusing the nonprofit of "massive" and "blatant" copyright infringement "of works by some of the greatest artists of the Twentieth Century." The ...

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 ...

The Internet Archive has been hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week that have taken the service offline. The Verge noticed a popup on the site today when the online database went down. The popup ...

Update on 10/20/24 added to the bottom of this article. Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication ...

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 ...

Update, 11:58 p.m. ET: The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle wrote a short blog post about what happened. The website was getting tens of thousands of requests per second from someone using AWS, ...

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 ...

The platform gets its federal library designation as part of its mission to keep knowledge accessible for all, says founder Brewster Kahle. The Internet Archive is now a federal depository library, ...

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode For All Eternity. The internet is forever ... or is it? The average webpage is deleted or changed in just 100 days. To preserve all human knowledge — digital and ...