Category Archives: News

Proposed EU Copyright Measure Threatens the Internet

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Lila Bailey

The European Union is set to vote on a copyright proposal that will require platforms hosting user-generated content to automatically scan and filter anything that their users upload (see the EU Commission’s proposed Article 13 of the Copyright Directive) on … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive, Code for Science and Society, and California Digital Library to Partner on a Data Sharing and Preservation Pilot Project

Posted on June 5, 2018 by jefferson

Research and cultural heritage institutions are facing increasing costs to provide long-term public access to historically valuable collections of scientific data, born-digital records, and other digital artifacts. With many institutions moving data to cloud services, data sharing and access costs … Continue reading →

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The Lost Landscapes of New York: A Benefit for the Internet Archive — Friday, June 15

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Caitlin Olson

by Rick Prelinger Since 2006, film historian and archivist Rick Prelinger has presented twenty participatory urban history events to enthusiastic audiences in San Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, Oakland, and at festivals throughout the world. Now, for the first time, LOST … Continue reading →

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The ACCESS to Recordings Act is the Right Way to Fix Music Copyright

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Lila Bailey

Senator Wyden (D-OR) has introduced a common sense bill to fix a bad mistake made by Congress in the 1970s as an alternative to the bad bill Congress is currently considering. The Accessibility for Curators, Creators, Educators, Scholars, and Society … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive awarded grant from Arcadia Fund to digitize university press collections

Posted on May 21, 2018 by chrisfreeland

Internet Archive has received a $1 million dollar grant from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – to digitize titles from university press collections to make them available via controlled digital lending.  The project, Unlocking … Continue reading →

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Benefit Concert for Internet Archive featuring Moonalice – June 30, 2018

Posted on May 21, 2018 by jeff kaplan

We always appreciate donations to support the Internet Archive. So we figured why not make it fun as well and have a benefit concert. Roger McNamee is a good friend of the Archive. His awesome band Moonalice will be headlining. SF Airship … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: Six takeaways from adding Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama & more to Face-o-Matic facial detection

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Nancy Watzman

A round up on what’s happening at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman. This week we release new data generated by our Face-o-Matic tool, developed in collaboration with Matroid, adding to our list of public figures … Continue reading →

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The Future of Civil Discourse – Four Scenarios Imagined

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Katie Barrett

by Katie Barrett and Lawrence Wilkinson Looking 10 years ahead, try and imagine a world without trust, but rife with monopolies. Walled gardens of tech giants solidify. The DOW and Nasdaq are up, civic engagement is low, surveillance is ubiquitous. … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive Meets Pineapple Fund’s $1M Challenge

Posted on May 1, 2018 by David Fox

As the days wound down and our April 30 deadline drew near, supporters of the Internet Archive rallied to help us raise $1 million—the amount the Pineapple Fund pledged to match. Today, we are happy to announce: We Made It!  … Continue reading →

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Spam Faxes and the Wonders of Ephemera

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Jason Scott

In 2002, a father in the UK gathered up a pile of fax paper from his fax machine and took it home. Was he looking at some treasured writings and gathered cultural touchstones and wanted to preserve them? No, he … Continue reading →

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