Several major record labels and rights holders have settled their $621 million copyright infringement suit against the Internet Archive over its efforts to digitize, preserve, and share 78 rpm records. Attorneys for both sides filed the joint notice of settlement today in the California district court. It states only that …
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Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and Amanda Palmer are among the 300-plus musicians who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records. The letter, spearheaded by the digital advocacy group Fight for …
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I n the old chapel of a former Christian Science church in San Francisco, late-afternoon sun pours orange through the windows, and several giant servers are hard at work. The tall, black towers fill two large alcoves, and their cooling fans emit a serene, industrial hum as blue lights blink. …
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The Internet Archive has lost its appeal of a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by several major book publishers over its digital book lending program. In its ruling, a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the IA’s controlled digital lending program, Open …
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Late last month, more than two decades worth of music and entertainment journalism vanished when Paramount Global suddenly disabled the MTV News website. Just over a week later, the Internet Archive has responded by creating a searchable collection of the old MTV News site through the Wayback Machine. The collection …
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Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive. Last March, the service which calls itself “The Authority In Mixtapes” experienced a server crash that put their canonical library of free music in peril. A month later, the site relaunched with a …
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Digital database Internet Archive lost the first ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the “nonprofit library” by four of the biggest publishing companies. In June 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, John Wiley & Sons, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins and Penguin Random House sued Internet Archive over their attempt …
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