Category Archives: News

Public Domain Day — January 30, 2020 in Washington DC

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Caitlin Olson

Please join us on January 30, 2020 for an evening celebration of the public domain! Presented by Internet Archive, Institute for Intellectual Property & Social Justice, Creative Commons, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, and SPARC, this event … Continue reading →

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The Lost Landscapes of San Francisco: A Benefit for the Internet Archive — Friday, January 24th

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Caitlin Olson

COMBINING a year of exciting archival discoveries with evergreen favorites from past years, this feature-length program shows San Francisco’s people, neighborhoods, infrastructures and celebrations from the early 20th century through the 1980s. New sequences this year run the gamut from … Continue reading →

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Libraries and Publishing Now– Viva la Library!

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Brewster Kahle

Readers consume publisher’s products many hours every day– and consume on publisher’s terms. Publisher’s framing on our screens, publisher’s business models, publisher’s flow and pacing. Yes, there are many publishers now, but we are, mostly, locked into their presentation forms. … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Lessig: Being a Citizen is a Public Office, too

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Wendy Hanamura

Why, you might wonder, is a famous Harvard Law professor and the founder of Creative Commons writing a book to wake us up to the fundamental problem facing our republic? The simple answer:  Aaron Swartz. Swartz, the free culture activist, … Continue reading →

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I’m Done Selling Sweaters. Instead I’m Selling a Vision I Believe In.

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Jenica Jessen

Eight months ago, I was miserable. On paper, it seemed like everything should be going right. I was working long hours at a promising startup in a rapidly growing industry. My job was to use cutting-edge digital marketing technology to … Continue reading →

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The Public Domain Line is Moving Again – One Year Later

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Lila Bailey

When I was about 20, I fell in love with the love of Vera and Roland, British youth that loved to chat and write about books, Oxford, and love. Roland would go to war. Vera would go to Oxford. They … Continue reading →

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Preserving the legacy of a library when a college closes

Posted on December 10, 2019 by chrisfreeland

“I feel that, sadly, the College is closing, but the library is not. It is re-emerging in a different form.” —Mary Kickham-Samy, Director of Geschke Library, Marygrove College In June of this year, Marygrove College announced that the graduate college, located … Continue reading →

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Save the Date – Public Domain Day 2020

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Lila Bailey

The Internet Archive is excited to announce that we will be celebrating Public Domain Day on January 30, 2020 in our nation’s capitol. We have an exciting line-up of local musicians and artists, as well as projects from around the … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Lessig : “They Don’t Represent Us” – Conversation & Book Signing — Tuesday, December 17 at 6pm

Posted on December 3, 2019 by John Hickey

Please join us at the Internet Archive’s San Francisco Headquarters on Tuesday, December 17th at 6 pm to hear a titan of Internet law, political reformer and “the most distinguished law professor of his generation,” Lawrence Lessig discuss his new … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Reasons to Support the Internet Archive

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Wendy Hanamura

Today, the Internet Archive launches is End of Year Fundraising Campaign. We’re lucky to have a 2-to-1 Matching Grant for the next few weeks, so your impact will be tripled if you give today. Of the 1.1 million people who use … Continue reading →

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