Monday, November 3, 2025

News on the Internet Archive: the cost of principled legal defense

 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/03/1930232/internet-archives-legal-fights-are-over-but-its-founder-mourns-what-was-lost

 

 The Internet Archive celebrated archiving its trillionth webpage last month and received congratulations from San Francisco, which declared October 22 "Internet Archive Day." Senator Alex Padilla designated the nonprofit a federal depository library. The organization currently faces no major lawsuits and no active threats to its collections. But these victories arrived after years of bruising copyright battles that forced the removal of more than 500,000 books from the Archive's Open Library. "We survived, but it wiped out the Library," founder Brewster Kahle told ArsTechnica.

 

 

No comments:

Post a Comment