Please join us at our headquarters in San Francisco for a Celebration of the Public Domain! This year, we’re honoring 1929 — the year of the very first Academy Awards, held at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA. Event Recording: https://archive.org/details/public-domain-day-2025-in-person-event-at-internet-archive-headquarters
We invite you to Fahrenheit 2451 an exciting two-day academic conference on Friday, January 31st, and Saturday, February 1st at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco, California. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury imagines a “living library” where people memorize classic books to preserve them from the flames. From Tolkien’s and C.S. Lewis’s mythologies to the […]
Ideas Worth Saving is hosting an in-person film clip viewing and a panel discussion on Friday, January 31st and Saturday, February 1st. The film clips and a panel discussion themes will be The True Origins of Star Wars on Friday, and The Tolkien You Never Knew on Sunday. We encourage you to attend in costume […]
For our seventh monthly public domain night, Internet Archive will host a screening of His Girl Friday (1940), starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. The film can be watched on the Internet Archive Here. Simone Elias' introduction to the film can be watched on the Internet Archive Here. Join us for this legendary screwball film, […]
An exploration of how video shapes politics, law, education & media. Ticket Link Join us for a conversation with Author and Program Director Peter B. Kaufman, led by archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger: 6:30 PM: Doors open --- 6:45 PM: Book Talk: The Moving Image Please note that this event will be held in person […]
Join us for a discussion with authors JOSHUA LEVINE and TIM HWANG—exploring artificial intelligence, IP law & global rivalry. REGISTER NOW!
For our ninth monthly public domain night, Internet Archive will host a screening of The Deadly Companions (1961), directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. Purchase Tickets Here. Join us for this gripping Western and war film, which follows an ex-army soldier who accidentally kills a woman's son and, in an […]
Prelinger Archives is in the final year of a three-year grant for mass-digitization of its film collection funded by Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Since the start of the project, Prelinger Archives staff have scanned over 3 million feet of film and uploaded over 2000 items, while collectively developing practices of inclusive and reparative […]
The Internet Archive is happy to announce a screening of a documentary, "Hacking at Leaves" at our headquarters in San Francisco. Tickets are available Here. 'Hacking at Leaves' documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms with the United States' colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement. […]
Join us for a book talk with JENNIFER JENKINS, author of MUSIC COPYRIGHT, CREATIVITY, AND CULTURE, exploring how copyright shapes the music we love — from historical influences to modern challenges. JAMES BOYLE will facilitate our discussion. REGISTER NOW
For our 11th monthly public domain film night, Internet Archive will host a screening of BEAT THE DEVIL (1953). Directed by John Huston, the film stars Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida (in her first popular English language movie). Purchase your $5 Ticket here. Viewed variously as a puzzle, a parody, a […]
Looking for your tribe? Connect with values-driven creators of decentralized tech for an evening of talks, demos & dinner! RSVP Here. Overview As governments around the world erase history from the Web, we need to build an information commons that is private, resilient, and beyond the control of any one corporation or government. At the […]
