What the Internet Archive is doing right now--allowing unlimited downloads of books under copyright, for which they have not paid, and have no legal right--is not serving as a library. It's piracy.

I am therefore pleased to designate the Internet Archive as a federal depository library." Earlier this month, the free and open digital library also announced that it had reached a significant ...

The Emergency Library is an expansion of the Open Libraries initiative, where the Internet Archive worked with libraries to scan their books. For nearly a decade, it’s let people “check out ...

The National Emergency Library expanded the site’s long-running Open Library program, which lets people digitally “check out” scanned copies of physical books. The publishers deemed both online ...

“We offered to work with Internet Archive in 2017 to create a licensing system that would make Open Library compliant with the copyright law, and that offer was rejected,” Authors Guild CEO ...

Those are pretty wild allegations—especially considering that the Internet Archive’s Open Library operates on the traditional terms that libraries in this country have abided by for centuries.

Internet Archive, the closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books, with the most recent coverage up top. This list will be updated as needed.

The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 as a non-profit digital library, aiming to provide “universal access to all knowledge”. It started with a project to preserve the World Wide Web.

The Internet Archive’s Open Library functions differently in lending digital copies of books than traditional libraries, in that it doesn’t acquire e-books through publishers.

The Emergency Library is part of the Open Libraries initiative, in which the Internet Archive scans libraries’ books, allowing digital “check-outs” via a waiting list. But the Emergency ...

The Internet Archive says it will appeal the decision, calling it "a blow to all libraries & the communities we serve." ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...