Author Archives: Brewster Kahle

Declaration to be ‘Defensive’ for the Defensive Patent License

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive hereby declares itself ‘Defensive’ by committing to offer a Defensive Patent License, version 1.1 or any later version, for any of its patents, to any DPL User.   The Internet Archive does not have any patents at this … Continue reading →

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Defensive Patent License: Troll Proofed. Innovation Protected.

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

Today the Defensive Patent License is officially released.   It is designed to bring free software ideas to the patent arena by encouraging patent owners to declare themselves “defensive,” and share their patents with others that have declared themselves defensive. … Continue reading →

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430 Billion Web Pages Saved….Help Us Do More!

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

Dear Friends, Today we launch our End-of-Year Campaign.  Once a year, I ask all of you to keep the Internet Archive going and growing stronger.   Please help us reach our goal of raising $1.5 million by the end of the year.  Your support will … Continue reading →

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Music Analysis Beginnings

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

As mentioned in our recent Building Music Libraries post, we are working with researchers at Columbia University and UPF in Barcelona to run their code on the music collection to help their research and to provide new analyses that could help with … Continue reading →

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Using Docker to Encapsulate Complicated Program is Successful

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive has been using docker in a useful way that is a bit out of the mainstream: to package a command-line binary and its dependencies so we can deploy it on a cluster and use it in the same … Continue reading →

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NYtimes Readers: Try our beta website

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The NYtimes article on us has our beta website address incorrect as archive.org, but please visit archive.org/v2 instead.  

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Building Libraries Together: New Tools for a New Direction

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

(NYtimes on this announcement, video of talks) Let’s work together to save all human knowledge.  Today the Internet Archive is announcing a new beta site and new tools to encourage everyone to lend a hand. We were founded in 1996 … Continue reading →

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Building Music Libraries

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive is working with partners to preserve our musical heritage. The music collections started 8 years ago with the etree.org live music recordings and grew when we started hosting netlabels. Now through new efforts and partnerships we have … Continue reading →

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Please Help Protect Net Neutrality

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

Please stand with the Internet Archive to Protect Net Neutrality by writing to your congressperson.    Today, many organizations are putting “Internet Loading” symbols on their sites to bring awareness to the stakes to those of us that would be … Continue reading →

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Working to Stop Rewriting Copyright Laws via TPP Treaty

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive joined Our Fair Deal along with EFF and Public Knowledge to stop the US from using the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty from changing our copyright laws.   The coalition sent two open letters to TPP negotiators today on critical … Continue reading →

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