What the Internet Archive is doing right now--allowing unlimited downloads of books under copyright, for which they have not paid, and have no legal right--is not serving as a library. It's piracy.

On appeal, Internet Archive argued the lower court erred by adopting an “unworkably expansive definition of ‘commercial’” in determining against its fair use defense. Represented by attorneys from ...

Internet Archive, the San Francisco-based digital library is celebrating its 25th year of preserving the history of the internet, radio, and TV broadcasts.

“We offered to work with Internet Archive in 2017 to create a licensing system that would make Open Library compliant with the copyright law, and that offer was rejected,” Authors Guild CEO ...

The Internet Archive isn’t giving up the fight, planning to appeal the ruling. But even without that emergency library, the Internet Archive still has a whole lot to offer.

The Internet Archive is an online digital library based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1996 with the stated mission of providing “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” ...

As Americans coped with lockdowns and isolation in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet Archive—a platform devoted to preserving digital history—hit on a novel way to help ...

The electronic library of the Internet archive contains about 1.4 million books in total, and users can borrow up to 10 books at a time and read online. You can find out how to read the book for ...

Last week, the Internet Archive launched a “National Emergency Library” offering access to 1.4 million free books during the coronavirus pandemic. The library aims to serve people who can’t ...

Internet Archive has made 1.4 million books available free online, which some say hurts writers and advances a harmful “copyright ideology.” By Alexandra Alter It was initially presented as a ...

The Emergency Library is part of the Open Libraries initiative, in which the Internet Archive scans libraries’ books, allowing digital “check-outs” via a waiting list. But the Emergency ...