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Internet Archive

February 15, 2024

For other uses, see Internet archive (disambiguation).
"archive.org" redirects here. Not to be confused with arXiv.org, Internet library, or Archive.
For help citing the Wayback Machine (an Internet Archive service) on this version of Wikipedia, see Help:Using the Wayback Machine.

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded on May 10, 1996, and chaired by free information advocate Brewster Kahle.[1][2][4] It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials. The Archive also advocates for a free and open Internet. As of February 4, 2024, the Internet Archive holds more than 44 million print materials, 10.6 million videos, 1 million software programs, 15 million audio files, 4.8 million images, 255,000 concerts, and over 835 billion web pages in its Wayback Machine.[5] Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge".[5]

Internet Archive
Type of businessNonprofit organization
Type of site
Digital library
Available inEnglish
FoundedMay 10, 1996; 27 years ago (1996-05-10)[1][2]
HeadquartersRichmond District
San Francisco, California, United States
37°46′56″N 122°28′18″W / 37.782321°N 122.471611°W / 37.782321; -122.471611
Founder(s)Brewster Kahle
ChairmanBrewster Kahle
Services
Revenue $30.5 million (2022)[3]
Total assets $7.3 million (2022)[3]
Employees 169 (2022)[3]
URLarchive.org
CommercialNo
Launched1996 (1996)
Current statusActive
ASN7941
Since late 2009, the headquarters of the Internet Archive has been the building that formerly housed the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (San Francisco, California).

The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures.[6][7] The Archive also oversees numerous book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts.

History edit

 
Headquarters in Building 116 of the Presidio of San Francisco in 2008

Brewster Kahle founded the Archive in May 1996 around the same time that he began the for-profit web crawling company Alexa Internet.[8][9] In October of that year, the Internet Archive had begun to archive and preserve the World Wide Web in large amounts,[10] though it saved the earliest known page on May 10, 1996, at 2:42 pm.[11][12][13][14] The archived content first became available to the general public in 2001, when it developed the Wayback Machine.

In late 1999, the Archive expanded its collections beyond the web archive, beginning with the Prelinger Archives. Now, the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software. It hosts a number of other projects: the NASA Images Archive, the contract crawling service Archive-It, and the wiki-editable library catalog and book information site Open Library. Soon after that, the Archive began working to provide specialized services relating to the information access needs of the print-disabled; publicly accessible books were made available in a protected Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) format.[15]

According to its website:[16]

Most societies place importance on preserving artifacts of their culture and heritage. Without such artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. Our culture now produces more and more artifacts in digital form. The Archive's mission is to help preserve those artifacts and create an Internet library for researchers, historians, and scholars.

In August 2012, the Archive announced[17] that it has added BitTorrent to its file download options for more than 1.3 million existing files, and all newly uploaded files.[18][19] This method is the fastest means of downloading media from the Archive, as files are served from two Archive data centers, in addition to other torrent clients which have downloaded and continue to serve the files.[18][20] On November 6, 2013, the Internet Archive's headquarters in San Francisco's Richmond District caught fire,[21] destroying equipment and damaging some nearby apartments.[22] According to the Archive, it lost a side-building housing one of 30 of its scanning centers; cameras, lights, and scanning equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars; and "maybe 20 boxes of books and film, some irreplaceable, most already digitized, and some replaceable".[23] The nonprofit Archive sought donations to cover the estimated $600,000 in damage.[24]

An overhaul of the site was launched as beta in November 2014, and the legacy layout was removed in March 2016.[25][26]

In November 2016, Kahle announced that the Internet Archive was building the Internet Archive of Canada, a copy of the Archive to be based somewhere in Canada. The announcement received widespread coverage due to the implication that the decision to build a backup archive in a foreign country was because of the upcoming presidency of Donald Trump.[27][28][29] Kahle was quoted as saying:

On November 9th in America, we woke up to a new administration promising radical change. It was a firm reminder that institutions like ours, built for the long-term, need to design for change. For us, it means keeping our cultural materials safe, private and perpetually accessible. It means preparing for a Web that may face greater restrictions. It means serving patrons in a world in which government surveillance is not going away; indeed it looks like it will increase. Throughout history, libraries have fought against terrible violations of privacy—where people have been rounded up simply for what they read. At the Internet Archive, we are fighting to protect our readers' privacy in the digital world.[27]

Beginning in 2017, OCLC and the Internet Archive have collaborated to make the Archive's records of digitized books available in WorldCat.[30]

Since 2018, the Internet Archive visual arts residency, which is organized by Amir Saber Esfahani and Andrew McClintock, helps connect artists with the Archive's over 48 petabytes[31] of digitized materials. Over the course of the yearlong residency, visual artists create a body of work which culminates in an exhibition. The hope is to connect digital history with the arts and create something for future generations to appreciate online or off.[32] Previous artists in residence include Taravat Talepasand, Whitney Lynn, and Jenny Odell.[33]

The Internet Archive acquires most materials from donations,[34] such as hundreds of thousands of 78 rpm discs from Boston Public Library in 2017,[35] a donation of 250,000 books from Trent University in 2018,[36] and the entire collection of Marygrove College's library in 2020 after it closed.[37] All material is then digitized and retained in digital storage, while a digital copy is returned to the original holder and the Internet Archive's copy, if not in the public domain, is lent to patrons worldwide one at a time under the controlled digital lending (CDL) theory of the first-sale doctrine.[38]

Operations edit

 
Mirror of the Internet Archive in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

The Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating in the United States. In 2019, it had an annual budget of $36 million, derived from revenue from its Web crawling services, various partnerships, grants, donations, and the Kahle-Austin Foundation.[39] The Internet Archive also manages periodic funding campaigns. For instance, a December 2019 campaign had a goal of reaching $6 million in donations.[40]

The Archive is headquartered in San Francisco, California. From 1996 to 2009, its headquarters were in the Presidio of San Francisco, a former U.S. military base. Since 2009, its headquarters have been at 300 Funston Avenue in San Francisco, a former Christian Science Church. At one time, most of its staff worked in its book-scanning centers; as of 2019, scanning is performed by 100 paid operators worldwide.[41] The Archive also has data centers in three Californian cities: San Francisco, Redwood City, and Richmond. To reduce the risk of data loss, the Archive creates copies of parts of its collection at more distant locations, including the Bibliotheca Alexandrina[42][43] in Egypt and a facility in Amsterdam.[44]

The Archive is a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium[45] and was officially designated as a library by the state of California in 2007.[46][47]

Web archiving edit

Main article: Web archiving

Wayback Machine edit

Main article: Wayback Machine
 
Wayback Machine logo, used since 2001
Mark Graham

The Internet Archive capitalized on the popular use of the term "WABAC Machine" from a segment of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon (specifically, Peabody's Improbable History), and uses the name "Wayback Machine" for its service that allows archives of the World Wide Web to be searched and accessed.[48] This service allows users to view some of the archived web pages. The Wayback Machine was created as a joint effort between Alexa Internet (owned by Amazon.com) and the Internet Archive when a three-dimensional index was built to allow for the browsing of archived web content.[49] Hundreds of billions of web sites and their associated data (images, source code, documents, etc.) are saved in a database. The service can be used to see what previous versions of web sites used to look like, to grab original source code from web sites that may no longer be directly available, or to visit web sites that no longer even exist. Not all web sites are available because many web site owners choose to exclude their sites. As with all sites based on data from web crawlers, the Internet Archive misses large areas of the web for a variety of other reasons. A 2004 paper found international biases in the coverage, but deemed them "not intentional".[50]

 
A purchase of additional storage at the Internet Archive
 
Servers at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco

A "Save Page Now" archiving feature was made available in October 2013,[51] accessible on the lower right of the Wayback Machine's main page.[52] Once a target URL is entered and saved, the web page will become part of the Wayback Machine.[51] Through the Internet address web.archive.org,[53] users can upload to the Wayback Machine a large variety of contents, including PDF and data compression file formats. The Wayback Machine creates a permanent local URL of the upload content, that is accessible in the web, even if not listed while searching in the https://archive.org official website.

In October 2016, it was announced that the way web pages are counted would be changed, resulting in the decrease of the archived pages counts shown. Embedded objects such as pictures, videos, style sheets, JavaScripts are no longer counted as a "web page", whereas HTML, PDF, and plain text documents remain counted.[54]

Year Archived pages (billions)
2002 10[55]
2003 11[56]
2004 30[57]
2005 40[58]
2006–2008 85[59][60][61]
2009–2012 150[62][63][64][65]
2013 373[66]
2014 435[67]
2015 459[68]
2016 510[69]
279[70][a]
2017 310[71]
2018 345[72]
2019 401[73]
2020 514[74]
2021 640[75]
2022 767[76]
2024 735[5]
  1. ^ The counting system changed in 2016, lowering the count.[54]

In September 2020, the Internet Archive announced a partnership with Cloudflare to automatically index websites served via its "Always Online" services.[77]

Archive-It edit

Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive talks about archiving operations.

Created in early 2006, Archive-It[78] is a web archiving subscription service that allows institutions and individuals to build and preserve collections of digital content and create digital archives. Archive-It allows the user to customize their capture or exclusion of web content they want to preserve for cultural heritage reasons. Through a web application, Archive-It partners can harvest, catalog, manage, browse, search, and view their archived collections.[79]

In terms of accessibility, the archived web sites are full text searchable within seven days of capture.[80] Content collected through Archive-It is captured and stored as a WARC file. A primary and back-up copy is stored at the Internet Archive data centers. A copy of the WARC file can be given to subscribing partner institutions for geo-redundant preservation and storage purposes to their best practice standards.[81] Periodically, the data captured through Archive-It is indexed into the Internet Archive's general archive.

As of March 2014, Archive-It had more than 275 partner institutions in 46 U.S. states and 16 countries that have captured more than 7.4 billion URLs for more than 2,444 public collections. Archive-It partners are universities and college libraries, state archives, federal institutions, museums, law libraries, and cultural organizations, including the Electronic Literature Organization, North Carolina State Archives and Library, Stanford University, Columbia University, American University in Cairo, Georgetown Law Library, and many others.

Internet Archive Scholar edit

Main article: Internet Archive Scholar

In September 2020 Internet Archive announced a new initiative to archive and preserve open access academic journals, called Internet Archive Scholar.[82][83][84] Its full-text search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest open access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.

General Index edit

In 2021, the Internet Archive announced the initial version of the General Index, a publicly available index to a collection of 107 million academic journal articles.[85][86]

Book collections edit

Text collection edit

 
Internet Archive "Scribe" book scanning workstation
 
An Internet Archive in-house scan ongoing

The scanning performed by the Internet Archive is financially supported by libraries and foundations.[87] As of November 2008, when there were approximately 1 million texts, the entire collection was greater than 0.5 petabytes, which included raw camera images, cropped and skewed images, PDFs, and raw OCR data.[88]

As of July 2013, the Internet Archive was operating 33 scanning centers in five countries, digitizing about 1,000 books a day for a total of more than 2 million books, in a total collection of 4.4 million books – including material digitized by others and fed into the Internet Archive; at that time, users were performing more than 15 million downloads per month.[89]

The material digitized by others includes more than 300,000 books that were contributed to the collection, between about 2006 and 2008, by Microsoft through its Live Search Books project, which also included financial support and scanning equipment directly donated to the Internet Archive.[90] On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced it would be ending its Live Book Search project and would no longer be scanning books, donating its remaining scanning equipment to its former partners.[90]

Around October 2007, Archive users began uploading public domain books from Google Book Search.[91] As of November 2013, there were more than 900,000 Google-digitized books in the Archive's collection;[92] the books are identical to the copies found on Google, except without the Google watermarks, and are available for unrestricted use and download.[a] Brewster Kahle revealed in 2013 that this archival effort was coordinated by Aaron Swartz, who, with a "bunch of friends", downloaded the public domain books from Google slowly enough and from enough computers to stay within Google's restrictions. They did this to ensure public access to the public domain. The Archive ensured the items were attributed and linked back to Google, which never complained, while libraries "grumbled". According to Kahle, this is an example of Swartz's "genius" to work on what could give the most to the public good for millions of people.[93]

In addition to books, the Archive offers free and anonymous public access to more than four million court opinions, legal briefs, or exhibits uploaded from the United States Federal Courts' PACER electronic document system via the RECAP web browser plugin. These documents had been kept behind a federal court paywall. On the Archive, they had been accessed by more than six million people by 2013.[93]

The Archive's BookReader web app,[94] built into its website, has features such as single-page, two-page, and thumbnail modes; fullscreen mode; page zooming of high-resolution images; and flip page animation.[94][95]

Open Library edit

Main article: Open Library

The Open Library is another project of the Internet Archive. The project seeks to include a web page for every book ever published: it holds 25 million catalog records of editions. It also seeks to be a web-accessible public library: it contains the full texts of approximately 1,600,000 public domain books (out of the more than five million from the main texts collection), as well as in-print and in-copyright books,[96] many of which are fully readable, downloadable[97][98] and full-text searchable;[99] it offers a two-week loan of e-books in its controlled digital lending program for over 647,784 books not in the public domain, in partnership with over 1,000 library partners from six countries[89][100] after a free registration on the web site. Open Library is a free and open-source software project, with its source code freely available on GitHub.

The Open Library faces objections from some authors and the Society of Authors, who hold that the project is distributing books without authorization and is thus in violation of copyright laws,[101] and four major publishers initiated a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Internet Archive in June 2020 to stop the Open Library project.[102]

Digitizing sponsors for books edit

Many large institutional sponsors have helped the Internet Archive provide millions of scanned publications (text items).[103] Some sponsors that have digitized large quantities of texts include the University of Toronto's Robarts Library, the University of Alberta Libraries, the University of Ottawa, the Library of Congress, Boston Library Consortium member libraries, the Boston Public Library, the Princeton Theological Seminary Library, and many others.[104]

In 2017, the MIT Press authorized the Internet Archive to digitize and lend books from the press's backlist,[105] with financial support from the Arcadia Fund.[106][107] A year later, the Internet Archive received further funding from the Arcadia Fund to invite some other university presses to partner with the Internet Archive to digitize books, a project called "Unlocking University Press Books".[108][109]

The Library of Congress created numerous handle system identifiers that pointed to free digitized books in the Internet Archive.[110] The Internet Archive and Open Library are listed on the Library of Congress website as a source of e-books.[111]

Media collections edit

 
Media reader
 
Microfilms at the Internet Archive
 
Videocassettes at the Internet Archive

In addition to web archives, the Internet Archive maintains extensive collections of digital media that are attested by the uploader to be in the public domain in the United States or licensed under a license that allows redistribution, such as Creative Commons licenses. Media are organized into collections by media type (moving images, audio, text, etc.), and into sub-collections by various criteria. Each of the main collections includes a "Community" sub-collection (formerly named "Open Source") where general contributions by the public are stored.

Audio edit

Audio Archive edit

The Audio Archive is an audio archive that includes music, audiobooks, news broadcasts, old time radio shows, podcasts, and a wide variety of other audio files. As of January 2023, there are more than 15,000,000 free digital recordings in the collection. The subcollections include audio books and poetry, podcasts, non-English audio, and many others.[112] The sound collections are curated by B. George, director of the ARChive of Contemporary Music.[113]

Next to the stock HTML5 audio player, Winamp-resembling Webamp is available.

Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications edit

A project to preserve recordings of amateur radio transmissions, with funding from the Amateur Radio Digital Communications foundation.[114][115]

Live Music Archive edit

Main article: Live Music Archive

The Live Music Archive sub-collection includes more than 170,000 concert recordings from independent musicians, as well as more established artists and musical ensembles with permissive rules about recording their concerts, such as the Grateful Dead, and more recently, The Smashing Pumpkins. Also, Jordan Zevon has allowed the Internet Archive to host a definitive collection of his father Warren Zevon's concert recordings. The Zevon collection ranges from 1976 to 2001 and contains 126 concerts including 1,137 songs.[116]

The Great 78 Project edit

Main article: The Great 78 Project

The Great 78 Project aims to digitize 250,000 78 rpm singles (500,000 songs) from the period between 1880 and 1960, donated by various collectors and institutions. It has been developed in collaboration with the Archive of Contemporary Music and George Blood Audio, responsible for the audio digitization.[113]

Netlabels edit

Not to be confused with Netlabel.

The Archive has a collection of freely distributable music that is streamed and available for download via its Netlabels service. The music in this collection generally has Creative Commons-license catalogs of virtual record labels.[117][118]

Images collection edit

This collection contains more than 3.5 million items.[119] Cover Art Archive, Metropolitan Museum of Art – Gallery Images, NASA Images, Occupy Wall Street Flickr Archive, and USGS Maps are some sub-collections of Image collection.

Cover Art Archive edit

 
Logo of Cover Art Archive

The Cover Art Archive is a joint project between the Internet Archive and MusicBrainz, whose goal is to make cover art images on the Internet. As of April 2021, this collection contains more than 1,400,000 items.[120]

Metropolitan Museum of Art images edit

The images of this collection are from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This collection contains more than 140,000 items.[121]

NASA Images edit

The NASA Images archive was created through a Space Act Agreement between the Internet Archive and NASA to bring public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource. The IA NASA Images team worked closely with all of the NASA centers to keep adding to the ever-growing collection.[122] The nasaimages.org site launched in July 2008 and had more than 100,000 items online at the end of its hosting in 2012.

Occupy Wall Street Flickr archive edit

This collection contains Creative Commons-licensed photographs from Flickr related to the Occupy Wall Street movement. This collection contains more than 15,000 items.[123]

USGS Maps edit

This collection contains more than 59,000 items from Libre Map Project.[124]

Machinima Archive edit

One of the sub-collections of the Internet Archive's Video Archive is the Machinima Archive. This small section hosts many Machinima videos. Machinima is a digital artform in which computer games, game engines, or software engines are used in a sandbox-like mode to create motion pictures, recreate plays, or even publish presentations or keynotes. The archive collects a range of Machinima films from internet publishers such as Rooster Teeth and Machinima.com as well as independent producers. The sub-collection is a collaborative effort among the Internet Archive, the How They Got Game research project at Stanford University, the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences, and Machinima.com.[125]

Microfilm collection edit

This collection contains approximately 160,000 microfilmed items from a variety of libraries including the University of Chicago Libraries, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Alberta, Allen County Public Library, and the National Technical Information Service.[126][127]

Moving image collection edit

See also: Wikipedia list of films freely available on the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive holds a collection of approximately 3,863 feature films.[128] Additionally, the Internet Archive's Moving Image collection includes: newsreels, classic cartoons, pro- and anti-war propaganda, The Video Cellar Collection, Skip Elsheimer's "A.V. Geeks" collection, early television, and ephemeral material from Prelinger Archives, such as advertising, educational, and industrial films, as well as amateur and home movie collections.

Subcategories of this collection include:

  • IA's Brick Films collection, which contains stop-motion animation filmed with Lego bricks, some of which are "remakes" of feature films.
  • IA's Election 2004 collection, a non-partisan public resource for sharing video materials related to the 2004 United States presidential election.
  • IA's FedFlix collection, Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org that features "the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors"[129]
  • IA's Independent News collection, which includes sub-collections such as the Internet Archive's World At War competition from 2001, in which contestants created short films demonstrating "why access to history matters". Among their most-downloaded video files are eyewitness recordings of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
  • IA's September 11 Television Archive, which contains archival footage from the world's major television networks of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as they unfolded on live television.[130]

Open Educational Resources edit

See also: Open educational resources

Open Educational Resources is a digital collection at archive.org. This collection contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. The contributors of this collection are ArsDigita University, Hewlett Foundation, MIT, Monterey Institute, and Naropa University.[131]

TV News Search & Borrow edit

 
TV tuners at the Internet Archive

In September 2012, the Internet Archive launched the TV News Search & Borrow service for searching U.S. national news programs.[132] The service is built on closed captioning transcripts and allows users to search and stream 30-second video clips. Upon launch, the service contained "350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C."[133] According to Kahle, the service was inspired by the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, a similar library of televised network news programs.[134] In contrast to Vanderbilt, which limits access to streaming video to individuals associated with subscribing colleges and universities, the TV News Search & Borrow allows open access to its streaming video clips. In 2013, the Archive received an additional donation of "approximately 40,000 well-organized tapes" from the estate of a Philadelphia woman, Marion Stokes. Stokes "had recorded more than 35 years of TV news in Philadelphia and Boston with her VHS and Betamax machines."[135]

Miscellaneous collections edit

Brooklyn Museum collection contains approximately 3,000 items from Brooklyn Museum.[136] In December 2020, the film research library of Lillian Michelson was donated to the archive.[137]

Other services and endeavors edit

Physical media edit

 
A vintage wall intercom, an example of another "archived" item

Voicing a strong reaction to the idea of books simply being thrown away, and inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Kahle now envisions collecting one copy of every book ever published. "We're not going to get there, but that's our goal", he said. Alongside the books, Kahle plans to store the Internet Archive's old servers, which were replaced in 2010.[138]

Software edit

The Internet Archive has "the largest collection of historical software online in the world", spanning 50 years of computer history in terabytes of computer magazines and journals, books, shareware discs, FTP sites, video games, etc. The Internet Archive has created an archive of what it describes as "vintage software", as a way to preserve them.[139] The project advocated for an exemption from the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act to permit them to bypass copy protection, which the United States Copyright Office approved in 2003 for a period of three years.[140] The Archive does not offer the software for download, as the exemption is solely "for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive."[141] The Library of Congress renewed the exemption in 2006, and in 2009 indefinitely extended it pending further rulemakings.[142] The Library reiterated the exemption as a "Final Rule" with no expiration date in 2010.[143] In 2013, the Internet Archive began to provide select video games browser-playable via MESS, for instance the Atari 2600 game E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[144] Since December 23, 2014, the Internet Archive presents, via a browser-based DOSBox emulation, thousands of DOS/PC games[145][146][147][148] for "scholarship and research purposes only".[149][150][151] In November 2020, the Archive introduced a new emulator for Adobe Flash called Ruffle, and began archiving Flash animations and games ahead of the December 31, 2020, end-of-life for the Flash plugin across all computer systems.[152]

Table Top Scribe System edit

A combined hardware software system has been developed that performs a safe method of digitizing content.[153][154]

Credit Union edit

From 2012 to November 2015, the Internet Archive operated the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union, a federal credit union based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with the goal of providing access to low- and middle-income people. Throughout its short existence, the IAFCU experienced significant conflicts with the National Credit Union Administration, which severely limited the IAFCU's loan portfolio and concerns over serving Bitcoin firms. At the time of its dissolution, it consisted of 395 members and was worth $2.5 million.[155][156]

Decentralization edit

Since 2019,[157] the Internet Archive organizes an event called Decentralized Web Camp (DWeb Camp). It is an annual camp that brings together a diverse global community of contributors in a natural setting. The camp aims to tackle real-world challenges facing the web and co-create decentralized technologies for a better internet. It aims to foster collaboration, learning, and fun while promoting principles of trust, human agency, mutual respect, and ecological awareness.[158]

Wayforward Machine edit

 
Screenshot of viewing English Wikipedia on the Wayforward Machine

On 30 September 2021, as a part of its 25th anniversary celebration, Internet Archive launched the "Wayforward Machine", a satirical, fictional website covered with pop-ups asking for personal information. The site was intended to depict a fictional dystopian timeline of real-world events leading to such a future, such as the repeal of Section 230 of the United States Code in 2022 and the introduction of advertising implants in 2041.[159][160]

Ceramic archivists collection edit

 
Ceramic figures of Internet Archive employees

The Great Room of the Internet Archive features a collection of more than 100 ceramic figures representing employees of the Internet Archive, with the 100th statue immortalizing Aaron Swartz. This collection, inspired by the statues of the Xian warriors in China, was commissioned by Brewster Kahle, sculpted by Nuala Creed, and as of 2014, is ongoing.[161]

Artists in residence edit

The Internet Archive visual arts residency,[162] organized by Amir Saber Esfahani, is designed to connect emerging and mid-career artists with the Archive's millions of collections and to show what is possible when open access to information intersects with the arts. During this one-year residency, selected artists develop a body of work that responds to and utilizes the Archive's collections in their own practice.[163]

Controversies, legal disputes, and activism edit

 
The main hall of the current headquarters

Opposition to National security letters, bills and settlements edit

 
 
A national security letter issued to the Internet Archive demanding information about a user

On May 8, 2008, it was revealed that the Internet Archive had successfully challenged an FBI national security letter asking for logs on an undisclosed user.[167][168]

On November 28, 2016, it was revealed that a second FBI national security letter had been successfully challenged that had been asking for logs on another undisclosed user.[169]

The Internet Archive blacked out its web site for 12 hours on January 18, 2012, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act bills, two pieces of legislation in the United States Congress that they argued would "negatively affect the ecosystem of web publishing that led to the emergence of the Internet Archive". This occurred in conjunction with the English Wikipedia blackout, as well as numerous other protests across the Internet.[170]

The Internet Archive is a member of the Open Book Alliance, which has been among the most outspoken critics of the Google Book Settlement. The Archive advocates an alternative digital library project.[171]

Copyright takedowns edit

See also: Wayback Machine § In legal evidence

In November 2005, free downloads of Grateful Dead concerts were removed from the site, following what seemed to be disagreements between some of the former band members. John Perry Barlow identified Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann as the instigators of the change, according to an article in The New York Times.[172] Phil Lesh, a founding member of the band, commented on the change in a November 30, 2005, posting to his personal web site:

It was brought to my attention that all of the Grateful Dead shows were taken down from Archive.org right before Thanksgiving. I was not part of this decision making process and was not notified that the shows were to be pulled. I do feel that the music is the Grateful Dead's legacy and I hope that one way or another all of it is available for those who want it.[173]

A November 30 forum post from Brewster Kahle summarized what appeared to be the compromise reached among the band members. Audience recordings could be downloaded or streamed, but soundboard recordings were to be available for streaming only. Concerts have since been re-added.[174]

In February 2016, Internet Archive users had begun archiving digital copies of Nintendo Power, Nintendo's official magazine for their games and products, which ran from 1988 to 2012. The first 140 issues had been collected, before Nintendo had the archive removed on August 8, 2016. In response to the take-down, Nintendo told gaming website Polygon, "[Nintendo] must protect our own characters, trademarks and other content. The unapproved use of Nintendo's intellectual property can weaken our ability to protect and preserve it, or to possibly use it for new projects".[175]

In August 2017, the Department of Telecommunications of the Government of India blocked the Internet Archive along with other file-sharing websites, in accordance with two court orders issued by the Madras High Court,[176] citing piracy concerns after copies of two Bollywood films were allegedly shared via the service.[177] The HTTP version of the Archive was blocked but it remained accessible using the HTTPS protocol.[176]

In 2023, the Internet Archive became a popular site for Indians to watch the first episode of India: The Modi Question, a BBC documentary.[178] The video was reported to have been removed by the Archive on January 23.[178] The Internet Archive then stated, on January 27, that they had removed the video in response to a BBC request under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.[179]

The Great 78 Project had been started on the Internet Archive to store digitized versions of pre-1972 songs and albums from 78 rpm phonograph records, for the stated purpose of "the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records". The project had started in 2016, at which time the copyright on pre-1972 recordings only had limited duration; in 2019, the U.S. Congress passed the Music Modernization Act which extended pre-1972 recording copyrights to 2067. In August 2023, Sony Music Entertainment and five other major music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, asserting the project was engaged in copyright theft, denying the claim about research purposes since all the music was available via their respective digital and streaming music services. The companies were seeking the statutory damages for nearly 2500 songs named in the suit, for a total of $347 million.[180]

Hosting of disputed media edit

On October 9, 2016, the Internet Archive was temporarily blocked in Turkey after it was used (amongst other file hosting services) by hackers to host 17 GB of leaked government emails.[181][182]

Because the Internet Archive only lightly moderates uploads, it includes resources that may be valued by extremists or may be used by them to evade block listing. In May 2018, a report published by the cyber-security firm Flashpoint stated that the Islamic State was using the Internet Archive to share its propaganda.[183] Chris Butler, from the Internet Archive, responded that they regularly spoke to the US and EU governments about sharing information on terrorism.[183] In April 2019, Europol, acting on a referral from French police, asked the Internet Archive to remove 550 sites of "terrorist propaganda".[184] The Archive rejected the request, saying that the reports were wrong about the content they pointed to, or were too broad for the organization to comply with.[184] On July 14, 2021, the Internet Archive held a joint "Referral Action Day" with Europol to target terrorist videos.[185] A 2021 article said that jihadists regularly used the Internet Archive for "dead drops" of terrorist videos.[186] In January 2022, a former UCLA lecturer's 800-page manifesto, containing racist ideas and threats against UCLA staff, was uploaded to the Internet Archive.[187] The manifesto was removed by the Internet Archive after a week, amidst discussion about whether such documents should be preserved by archivists or not.[187] Another 2022 paper found "an alarming volume of terrorist, extremist, and racist material on the Internet Archive".[188] A 2023 paper reported that Neo-Nazis collect links to online, publicly available resources to be shared with new recruits. As the Internet Archive hosts uploaded texts that are not allowed on other websites, Nazi and neo-Nazi books in the Archive (e.g., The Turner Diaries) frequently appear on these lists. These lists also feature older, public domain material created when white supremacist views were mainstream.[189]

National Emergency Library edit

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic which closed many schools, universities, and libraries, the Archive announced on March 24, 2020, that it was creating the National Emergency Library by removing the lending restrictions it had in place for 1.4 million digitized books in its Open Library but otherwise limiting users to the number of books they could check out and enforcing their return; normally, the site would only allow one digital lending for each physical copy of the book they had, by use of an encrypted file that would become unusable after the lending period was completed.[4] This Library would remain as such until at least June 30, 2020, or until the US national emergency was over, whichever came later.[190] At launch, the Internet Archive allowed authors and rightholders to submit opt-out requests for their works to be omitted from the National Emergency Library.[191][192][193]

The Internet Archive said the National Emergency Library addressed an "unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research material" due to the closures of physical libraries worldwide.[194] They justified the move in a number of ways. Legally, they said they were promoting access to those inaccessible resources, which they claimed was an exercise in fair use principles. The Archive continued implementing their controlled digital lending policy that predated the National Emergency Library, meaning they still encrypted the lent copies and it was no easier for users to create new copies of the books than before. An ultimate determination of whether or not the National Emergency Library constituted fair use could only be made by a court. Morally, they also pointed out that the Internet Archive was a registered library like any other, that they either paid for the books themselves or received them as donations, and that lending through libraries predated copyright restrictions.[191][195]

The Archive had already been criticized by authors and publishers for its prior lending approach, and upon announcement of the National Emergency Library, authors, publishers, and groups representing both took further issue, equating the move to copyright infringement and digital piracy, and using the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason to push the boundaries of copyright (see also: Open Library § Copyright violation accusations).[193][196][197][198] After the works of some of these authors were ridiculed in responses, the Internet Archive's Jason Scott requested that supporters of the National Emergency Library not denigrate anyone's books: "I realize there's strong debate and disagreement here, but books are life-giving and life-changing and these writers made them."[199]

Publishers' lawsuit edit

Main article: Hachette v. Internet Archive

The operation of the National Emergency Library was part of a lawsuit filed against the Internet Archive by four major book publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House—in June 2020, challenging the copyright validity of the controlled digital lending program.[4][102][200] In response, the Internet Archive closed the National Emergency Library on June 16, 2020, rather than the planned June 30, 2020, due to the lawsuit.[201][202] The plaintiffs, supported by the Copyright Alliance,[203] claimed in their lawsuit that the Internet Archive's actions constituted a "willful mass copyright infringement".[204] In August 2020 the lawsuit trial was tentatively scheduled to begin in November 2021.[205] By June 2022, both parties to the case requested summary judgment for the case, each favoring their respective sides, which Judge John G. Koeltl approved of a summary judgment hearing to take place later in 2022.[206] No summary judgment was issued, and instead a first hearing was held on March 20, 2023.[207] Over the course of the hearing, Judge John G. Koeltl appeared unmoved by the IA's fair use claims and unconvinced that the publishers' market for library e-books was not impacted by their practice.[208]

Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, chairman of the intellectual property subcommittee on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a letter to the Internet Archive that he was "concerned that the Internet Archive thinks that it—not Congress—gets to determine the scope of copyright law".[204]

As part of its response to the publishers' lawsuit, in late 2020 the Archive launched a campaign called Empowering Libraries (hashtag #EmpoweringLibraries) that portrayed the lawsuit as a threat to all libraries.[209]

In a 2021 preprint article, Argyri Panezi argued that the case "presents two important, but separate questions related to the electronic access to library works; first, it raises questions around the legal practice of digital lending, and second, it asks whether emergency use of copyrighted material might be fair use" and argued that libraries have a public service role to enable "future generations to keep having equal access—or opportunities to access—a plurality of original sources".[210]

In December 2020, Publishers Weekly included the lawsuit among its "Top 10 Library Stories of 2020".[211]

Judge Koeltl ruled on March 24, 2023, against Internet Archive in the case, saying the National Emergency Library concept was not fair use, so the Archive infringed their copyrights by lending out the books without the waitlist restriction. An agreement was then reached for the Internet Archive to pay an undisclosed amount to the publishers.[212] The Internet Archive said afterwards it would appeal this ruling, but otherwise would continue other digital book services which have been previously cleared under case law, such as books for reading-impaired users.[213][214] An updated report of the appeal process involving The Internet Archive was published on December 18, 2023, by TorrentFreak News.[215]

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Similar projects edit

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Notes edit

  1. ^ Books imported from Google have a metadata tag of scanner:google for searching purposes. The archive provides a link to Google for PDF copies, but also maintains a local PDF copy, which is viewable under the "All Files: HTTPS" link. As all the other books in the collection, they also provide OCR text and images in open formats, particularly DjVu, which Google Books does not offer.

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Further reading edit

  • Kahle, Brewster (November 1996). . Scientific America. Archived from the original on October 11, 1997.
  • Kahle, Brewster (November 6, 2013). "Scanning Center Fire – Please Help Rebuild". Internet Archive Blogs.
  • Lepore, Jill (January 26, 2015). "The Cobweb". The New Yorker.
  • Ringmar, Erik (April 10, 2008). "Liberate and Disseminate". Times Higher Education Supplement.

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internet, archive, other, uses, internet, archive, disambiguation, archive, redirects, here, confused, with, arxiv, internet, library, archive, help, citing, wayback, machine, service, this, version, wikipedia, help, using, wayback, machine, american, nonprofi. For other uses see Internet archive disambiguation archive org redirects here Not to be confused with arXiv org Internet library or Archive For help citing the Wayback Machine an Internet Archive service on this version of Wikipedia see Help Using the Wayback Machine The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded on May 10 1996 and chaired by free information advocate Brewster Kahle 1 2 4 It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites software applications music audiovisual and print materials The Archive also advocates for a free and open Internet As of February 4 2024 update the Internet Archive holds more than 44 million print materials 10 6 million videos 1 million software programs 15 million audio files 4 8 million images 255 000 concerts and over 835 billion web pages in its Wayback Machine 5 Its mission is committing to provide universal access to all knowledge 5 Internet ArchiveType of businessNonprofit organizationType of siteDigital libraryAvailable inEnglishFoundedMay 10 1996 27 years ago 1996 05 10 1 2 HeadquartersRichmond DistrictSan Francisco California United States37 46 56 N 122 28 18 W 37 782321 N 122 471611 W 37 782321 122 471611Founder s Brewster KahleChairmanBrewster KahleServicesArchive ItOpen LibraryWayback Machine since 2001 NetlabelsNASA ImagesPrelinger ArchivesRevenue 30 5 million 2022 3 Total assets 7 3 million 2022 3 Employees169 2022 3 URLarchive wbr orgCommercialNoLaunched1996 1996 Current statusActiveASN7941Since late 2009 the headquarters of the Internet Archive has been the building that formerly housed the Fourth Church of Christ Scientist San Francisco California The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible Its web archive the Wayback Machine contains hundreds of billions of web captures 6 7 The Archive also oversees numerous book digitization projects collectively one of the world s largest book digitization efforts Contents 1 History 2 Operations 3 Web archiving 3 1 Wayback Machine 3 2 Archive It 3 3 Internet Archive Scholar 3 4 General Index 4 Book collections 4 1 Text collection 4 2 Open Library 4 3 Digitizing sponsors for books 5 Media collections 5 1 Audio 5 1 1 Audio Archive 5 1 2 Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications 5 1 3 Live Music Archive 5 1 4 The Great 78 Project 5 1 5 Netlabels 5 2 Images collection 5 2 1 Cover Art Archive 5 2 2 Metropolitan Museum of Art images 5 2 3 NASA Images 5 2 4 Occupy Wall Street Flickr archive 5 2 5 USGS Maps 5 3 Machinima Archive 5 4 Microfilm collection 5 5 Moving image collection 5 6 Open Educational Resources 5 7 TV News Search amp Borrow 5 8 Miscellaneous collections 6 Other services and endeavors 6 1 Physical media 6 2 Software 6 3 Table Top Scribe System 6 4 Credit Union 6 5 Decentralization 6 6 Wayforward Machine 6 7 Ceramic archivists collection 6 8 Artists in residence 7 Controversies legal disputes and activism 7 1 Opposition to National security letters bills and settlements 7 2 Copyright takedowns 7 3 Hosting of disputed media 7 4 National Emergency Library 7 5 Publishers lawsuit 8 See also 8 1 Similar projects 8 2 Other 9 Notes 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksHistory edit nbsp Headquarters in Building 116 of the Presidio of San Francisco in 2008Brewster Kahle founded the Archive in May 1996 around the same time that he began the for profit web crawling company Alexa Internet 8 9 In October of that year the Internet Archive had begun to archive and preserve the World Wide Web in large amounts 10 though it saved the earliest known page on May 10 1996 at 2 42 pm 11 12 13 14 The archived content first became available to the general public in 2001 when it developed the Wayback Machine In late 1999 the Archive expanded its collections beyond the web archive beginning with the Prelinger Archives Now the Internet Archive includes texts audio moving images and software It hosts a number of other projects the NASA Images Archive the contract crawling service Archive It and the wiki editable library catalog and book information site Open Library Soon after that the Archive began working to provide specialized services relating to the information access needs of the print disabled publicly accessible books were made available in a protected Digital Accessible Information System DAISY format 15 According to its website 16 Most societies place importance on preserving artifacts of their culture and heritage Without such artifacts civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures Our culture now produces more and more artifacts in digital form The Archive s mission is to help preserve those artifacts and create an Internet library for researchers historians and scholars In August 2012 the Archive announced 17 that it has added BitTorrent to its file download options for more than 1 3 million existing files and all newly uploaded files 18 19 This method is the fastest means of downloading media from the Archive as files are served from two Archive data centers in addition to other torrent clients which have downloaded and continue to serve the files 18 20 On November 6 2013 the Internet Archive s headquarters in San Francisco s Richmond District caught fire 21 destroying equipment and damaging some nearby apartments 22 According to the Archive it lost a side building housing one of 30 of its scanning centers cameras lights and scanning equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and maybe 20 boxes of books and film some irreplaceable most already digitized and some replaceable 23 The nonprofit Archive sought donations to cover the estimated 600 000 in damage 24 An overhaul of the site was launched as beta in November 2014 and the legacy layout was removed in March 2016 25 26 In November 2016 Kahle announced that the Internet Archive was building the Internet Archive of Canada a copy of the Archive to be based somewhere in Canada The announcement received widespread coverage due to the implication that the decision to build a backup archive in a foreign country was because of the upcoming presidency of Donald Trump 27 28 29 Kahle was quoted as saying On November 9th in America we woke up to a new administration promising radical change It was a firm reminder that institutions like ours built for the long term need to design for change For us it means keeping our cultural materials safe private and perpetually accessible It means preparing for a Web that may face greater restrictions It means serving patrons in a world in which government surveillance is not going away indeed it looks like it will increase Throughout history libraries have fought against terrible violations of privacy where people have been rounded up simply for what they read At the Internet Archive we are fighting to protect our readers privacy in the digital world 27 Beginning in 2017 OCLC and the Internet Archive have collaborated to make the Archive s records of digitized books available in WorldCat 30 Since 2018 the Internet Archive visual arts residency which is organized by Amir Saber Esfahani and Andrew McClintock helps connect artists with the Archive s over 48 petabytes 31 of digitized materials Over the course of the yearlong residency visual artists create a body of work which culminates in an exhibition The hope is to connect digital history with the arts and create something for future generations to appreciate online or off 32 Previous artists in residence include Taravat Talepasand Whitney Lynn and Jenny Odell 33 The Internet Archive acquires most materials from donations 34 such as hundreds of thousands of 78 rpm discs from Boston Public Library in 2017 35 a donation of 250 000 books from Trent University in 2018 36 and the entire collection of Marygrove College s library in 2020 after it closed 37 All material is then digitized and retained in digital storage while a digital copy is returned to the original holder and the Internet Archive s copy if not in the public domain is lent to patrons worldwide one at a time under the controlled digital lending CDL theory of the first sale doctrine 38 Operations editThis section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information May 2020 nbsp Mirror of the Internet Archive in the Bibliotheca AlexandrinaThe Archive is a 501 c 3 nonprofit operating in the United States In 2019 it had an annual budget of 36 million derived from revenue from its Web crawling services various partnerships grants donations and the Kahle Austin Foundation 39 The Internet Archive also manages periodic funding campaigns For instance a December 2019 campaign had a goal of reaching 6 million in donations 40 The Archive is headquartered in San Francisco California From 1996 to 2009 its headquarters were in the Presidio of San Francisco a former U S military base Since 2009 its headquarters have been at 300 Funston Avenue in San Francisco a former Christian Science Church At one time most of its staff worked in its book scanning centers as of 2019 scanning is performed by 100 paid operators worldwide 41 The Archive also has data centers in three Californian cities San Francisco Redwood City and Richmond To reduce the risk of data loss the Archive creates copies of parts of its collection at more distant locations including the Bibliotheca Alexandrina 42 43 in Egypt and a facility in Amsterdam 44 The Archive is a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium 45 and was officially designated as a library by the state of California in 2007 46 47 Web archiving editMain article Web archiving Wayback Machine edit Main article Wayback Machine nbsp Wayback Machine logo used since 2001 source source Mark GrahamThe Internet Archive capitalized on the popular use of the term WABAC Machine from a segment of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon specifically Peabody s Improbable History and uses the name Wayback Machine for its service that allows archives of the World Wide Web to be searched and accessed 48 This service allows users to view some of the archived web pages The Wayback Machine was created as a joint effort between Alexa Internet owned by Amazon com and the Internet Archive when a three dimensional index was built to allow for the browsing of archived web content 49 Hundreds of billions of web sites and their associated data images source code documents etc are saved in a database The service can be used to see what previous versions of web sites used to look like to grab original source code from web sites that may no longer be directly available or to visit web sites that no longer even exist Not all web sites are available because many web site owners choose to exclude their sites As with all sites based on data from web crawlers the Internet Archive misses large areas of the web for a variety of other reasons A 2004 paper found international biases in the coverage but deemed them not intentional 50 nbsp A purchase of additional storage at the Internet Archive nbsp Servers at the Internet Archive headquarters in San FranciscoA Save Page Now archiving feature was made available in October 2013 51 accessible on the lower right of the Wayback Machine s main page 52 Once a target URL is entered and saved the web page will become part of the Wayback Machine 51 Through the Internet address web archive org 53 users can upload to the Wayback Machine a large variety of contents including PDF and data compression file formats The Wayback Machine creates a permanent local URL of the upload content that is accessible in the web even if not listed while searching in the https archive org official website In October 2016 it was announced that the way web pages are counted would be changed resulting in the decrease of the archived pages counts shown Embedded objects such as pictures videos style sheets JavaScripts are no longer counted as a web page whereas HTML PDF and plain text documents remain counted 54 Year Archived pages billions 2002 10 55 2003 11 56 2004 30 57 2005 40 58 2006 2008 85 59 60 61 2009 2012 150 62 63 64 65 2013 373 66 2014 435 67 2015 459 68 2016 510 69 279 70 a 2017 310 71 2018 345 72 2019 401 73 2020 514 74 2021 640 75 2022 767 76 2024 735 5 The counting system changed in 2016 lowering the count 54 In September 2020 the Internet Archive announced a partnership with Cloudflare to automatically index websites served via its Always Online services 77 Archive It edit source source source source source source track track track Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive talks about archiving operations Created in early 2006 Archive It 78 is a web archiving subscription service that allows institutions and individuals to build and preserve collections of digital content and create digital archives Archive It allows the user to customize their capture or exclusion of web content they want to preserve for cultural heritage reasons Through a web application Archive It partners can harvest catalog manage browse search and view their archived collections 79 In terms of accessibility the archived web sites are full text searchable within seven days of capture 80 Content collected through Archive It is captured and stored as a WARC file A primary and back up copy is stored at the Internet Archive data centers A copy of the WARC file can be given to subscribing partner institutions for geo redundant preservation and storage purposes to their best practice standards 81 Periodically the data captured through Archive It is indexed into the Internet Archive s general archive As of March 2014 update Archive It had more than 275 partner institutions in 46 U S states and 16 countries that have captured more than 7 4 billion URLs for more than 2 444 public collections Archive It partners are universities and college libraries state archives federal institutions museums law libraries and cultural organizations including the Electronic Literature Organization North Carolina State Archives and Library Stanford University Columbia University American University in Cairo Georgetown Law Library and many others Internet Archive Scholar edit Main article Internet Archive Scholar In September 2020 Internet Archive announced a new initiative to archive and preserve open access academic journals called Internet Archive Scholar 82 83 84 Its full text search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest open access conference proceedings and pre prints crawled from the World Wide Web General Index edit In 2021 the Internet Archive announced the initial version of the General Index a publicly available index to a collection of 107 million academic journal articles 85 86 Book collections editText collection edit nbsp Internet Archive Scribe book scanning workstation nbsp An Internet Archive in house scan ongoingThe scanning performed by the Internet Archive is financially supported by libraries and foundations 87 As of November 2008 update when there were approximately 1 million texts the entire collection was greater than 0 5 petabytes which included raw camera images cropped and skewed images PDFs and raw OCR data 88 As of July 2013 update the Internet Archive was operating 33 scanning centers in five countries digitizing about 1 000 books a day for a total of more than 2 million books in a total collection of 4 4 million books including material digitized by others and fed into the Internet Archive at that time users were performing more than 15 million downloads per month 89 The material digitized by others includes more than 300 000 books that were contributed to the collection between about 2006 and 2008 by Microsoft through its Live Search Books project which also included financial support and scanning equipment directly donated to the Internet Archive 90 On May 23 2008 Microsoft announced it would be ending its Live Book Search project and would no longer be scanning books donating its remaining scanning equipment to its former partners 90 Around October 2007 Archive users began uploading public domain books from Google Book Search 91 As of November 2013 update there were more than 900 000 Google digitized books in the Archive s collection 92 the books are identical to the copies found on Google except without the Google watermarks and are available for unrestricted use and download a Brewster Kahle revealed in 2013 that this archival effort was coordinated by Aaron Swartz who with a bunch of friends downloaded the public domain books from Google slowly enough and from enough computers to stay within Google s restrictions They did this to ensure public access to the public domain The Archive ensured the items were attributed and linked back to Google which never complained while libraries grumbled According to Kahle this is an example of Swartz s genius to work on what could give the most to the public good for millions of people 93 In addition to books the Archive offers free and anonymous public access to more than four million court opinions legal briefs or exhibits uploaded from the United States Federal Courts PACER electronic document system via the RECAP web browser plugin These documents had been kept behind a federal court paywall On the Archive they had been accessed by more than six million people by 2013 93 The Archive s BookReader web app 94 built into its website has features such as single page two page and thumbnail modes fullscreen mode page zooming of high resolution images and flip page animation 94 95 Open Library edit Main article Open Library The Open Library is another project of the Internet Archive The project seeks to include a web page for every book ever published it holds 25 million catalog records of editions It also seeks to be a web accessible public library it contains the full texts of approximately 1 600 000 public domain books out of the more than five million from the main texts collection as well as in print and in copyright books 96 many of which are fully readable downloadable 97 98 and full text searchable 99 it offers a two week loan of e books in its controlled digital lending program for over 647 784 books not in the public domain in partnership with over 1 000 library partners from six countries 89 100 after a free registration on the web site Open Library is a free and open source software project with its source code freely available on GitHub The Open Library faces objections from some authors and the Society of Authors who hold that the project is distributing books without authorization and is thus in violation of copyright laws 101 and four major publishers initiated a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Internet Archive in June 2020 to stop the Open Library project 102 Digitizing sponsors for books edit Many large institutional sponsors have helped the Internet Archive provide millions of scanned publications text items 103 Some sponsors that have digitized large quantities of texts include the University of Toronto s Robarts Library the University of Alberta Libraries the University of Ottawa the Library of Congress Boston Library Consortium member libraries the Boston Public Library the Princeton Theological Seminary Library and many others 104 In 2017 the MIT Press authorized the Internet Archive to digitize and lend books from the press s backlist 105 with financial support from the Arcadia Fund 106 107 A year later the Internet Archive received further funding from the Arcadia Fund to invite some other university presses to partner with the Internet Archive to digitize books a project called Unlocking University Press Books 108 109 The Library of Congress created numerous handle system identifiers that pointed to free digitized books in the Internet Archive 110 The Internet Archive and Open Library are listed on the Library of Congress website as a source of e books 111 Media collections edit nbsp Media reader nbsp Microfilms at the Internet Archive nbsp Videocassettes at the Internet ArchiveIn addition to web archives the Internet Archive maintains extensive collections of digital media that are attested by the uploader to be in the public domain in the United States or licensed under a license that allows redistribution such as Creative Commons licenses Media are organized into collections by media type moving images audio text etc and into sub collections by various criteria Each of the main collections includes a Community sub collection formerly named Open Source where general contributions by the public are stored Audio edit Audio Archive edit The Audio Archive is an audio archive that includes music audiobooks news broadcasts old time radio shows podcasts and a wide variety of other audio files As of January 2023 update there are more than 15 000 000 free digital recordings in the collection The subcollections include audio books and poetry podcasts non English audio and many others 112 The sound collections are curated by B George director of the ARChive of Contemporary Music 113 Next to the stock HTML5 audio player Winamp resembling Webamp is available Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications edit A project to preserve recordings of amateur radio transmissions with funding from the Amateur Radio Digital Communications foundation 114 115 Live Music Archive edit Main article Live Music Archive The Live Music Archive sub collection includes more than 170 000 concert recordings from independent musicians as well as more established artists and musical ensembles with permissive rules about recording their concerts such as the Grateful Dead and more recently The Smashing Pumpkins Also Jordan Zevon has allowed the Internet Archive to host a definitive collection of his father Warren Zevon s concert recordings The Zevon collection ranges from 1976 to 2001 and contains 126 concerts including 1 137 songs 116 The Great 78 Project edit Main article The Great 78 Project The Great 78 Project aims to digitize 250 000 78 rpm singles 500 000 songs from the period between 1880 and 1960 donated by various collectors and institutions It has been developed in collaboration with the Archive of Contemporary Music and George Blood Audio responsible for the audio digitization 113 Netlabels edit Not to be confused with Netlabel The Archive has a collection of freely distributable music that is streamed and available for download via its Netlabels service The music in this collection generally has Creative Commons license catalogs of virtual record labels 117 118 Images collection edit This collection contains more than 3 5 million items 119 Cover Art Archive Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery Images NASA Images Occupy Wall Street Flickr Archive and USGS Maps are some sub collections of Image collection Cover Art Archive edit nbsp Logo of Cover Art ArchiveThe Cover Art Archive is a joint project between the Internet Archive and MusicBrainz whose goal is to make cover art images on the Internet As of April 2021 update this collection contains more than 1 400 000 items 120 Metropolitan Museum of Art images edit The images of this collection are from the Metropolitan Museum of Art This collection contains more than 140 000 items 121 NASA Images edit The NASA Images archive was created through a Space Act Agreement between the Internet Archive and NASA to bring public access to NASA s image video and audio collections in a single searchable resource The IA NASA Images team worked closely with all of the NASA centers to keep adding to the ever growing collection 122 The nasaimages org site launched in July 2008 and had more than 100 000 items online at the end of its hosting in 2012 Occupy Wall Street Flickr archive edit This collection contains Creative Commons licensed photographs from Flickr related to the Occupy Wall Street movement This collection contains more than 15 000 items 123 USGS Maps edit This collection contains more than 59 000 items from Libre Map Project 124 Machinima Archive edit One of the sub collections of the Internet Archive s Video Archive is the Machinima Archive This small section hosts many Machinima videos Machinima is a digital artform in which computer games game engines or software engines are used in a sandbox like mode to create motion pictures recreate plays or even publish presentations or keynotes The archive collects a range of Machinima films from internet publishers such as Rooster Teeth and Machinima com as well as independent producers The sub collection is a collaborative effort among the Internet Archive the How They Got Game research project at Stanford University the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences and Machinima com 125 Microfilm collection edit This collection contains approximately 160 000 microfilmed items from a variety of libraries including the University of Chicago Libraries the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign the University of Alberta Allen County Public Library and the National Technical Information Service 126 127 Moving image collection edit See also Wikipedia list of films freely available on the Internet Archive The Internet Archive holds a collection of approximately 3 863 feature films 128 Additionally the Internet Archive s Moving Image collection includes newsreels classic cartoons pro and anti war propaganda The Video Cellar Collection Skip Elsheimer s A V Geeks collection early television and ephemeral material from Prelinger Archives such as advertising educational and industrial films as well as amateur and home movie collections Subcategories of this collection include IA s Brick Films collection which contains stop motion animation filmed with Lego bricks some of which are remakes of feature films IA s Election 2004 collection a non partisan public resource for sharing video materials related to the 2004 United States presidential election IA s FedFlix collection Joint Venture NTIS 1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public Resource Org that features the best movies of the United States Government from training films to history from our national parks to the U S Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors 129 IA s Independent News collection which includes sub collections such as the Internet Archive s World At War competition from 2001 in which contestants created short films demonstrating why access to history matters Among their most downloaded video files are eyewitness recordings of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake IA s September 11 Television Archive which contains archival footage from the world s major television networks of the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 as they unfolded on live television 130 Open Educational Resources edit See also Open educational resources Open Educational Resources is a digital collection at archive org This collection contains hundreds of free courses video lectures and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China The contributors of this collection are ArsDigita University Hewlett Foundation MIT Monterey Institute and Naropa University 131 TV News Search amp Borrow edit nbsp TV tuners at the Internet ArchiveIn September 2012 the Internet Archive launched the TV News Search amp Borrow service for searching U S national news programs 132 The service is built on closed captioning transcripts and allows users to search and stream 30 second video clips Upon launch the service contained 350 000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U S networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D C 133 According to Kahle the service was inspired by the Vanderbilt Television News Archive a similar library of televised network news programs 134 In contrast to Vanderbilt which limits access to streaming video to individuals associated with subscribing colleges and universities the TV News Search amp Borrow allows open access to its streaming video clips In 2013 the Archive received an additional donation of approximately 40 000 well organized tapes from the estate of a Philadelphia woman Marion Stokes Stokes had recorded more than 35 years of TV news in Philadelphia and Boston with her VHS and Betamax machines 135 Miscellaneous collections edit Brooklyn Museum collection contains approximately 3 000 items from Brooklyn Museum 136 In December 2020 the film research library of Lillian Michelson was donated to the archive 137 Other services and endeavors editPhysical media edit nbsp A vintage wall intercom an example of another archived itemVoicing a strong reaction to the idea of books simply being thrown away and inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Kahle now envisions collecting one copy of every book ever published We re not going to get there but that s our goal he said Alongside the books Kahle plans to store the Internet Archive s old servers which were replaced in 2010 138 Software edit The Internet Archive has the largest collection of historical software online in the world spanning 50 years of computer history in terabytes of computer magazines and journals books shareware discs FTP sites video games etc The Internet Archive has created an archive of what it describes as vintage software as a way to preserve them 139 The project advocated for an exemption from the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act to permit them to bypass copy protection which the United States Copyright Office approved in 2003 for a period of three years 140 The Archive does not offer the software for download as the exemption is solely for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive 141 The Library of Congress renewed the exemption in 2006 and in 2009 indefinitely extended it pending further rulemakings 142 The Library reiterated the exemption as a Final Rule with no expiration date in 2010 143 In 2013 the Internet Archive began to provide select video games browser playable via MESS for instance the Atari 2600 game E T the Extra Terrestrial 144 Since December 23 2014 the Internet Archive presents via a browser based DOSBox emulation thousands of DOS PC games 145 146 147 148 for scholarship and research purposes only 149 150 151 In November 2020 the Archive introduced a new emulator for Adobe Flash called Ruffle and began archiving Flash animations and games ahead of the December 31 2020 end of life for the Flash plugin across all computer systems 152 Table Top Scribe System edit A combined hardware software system has been developed that performs a safe method of digitizing content 153 154 Credit Union edit From 2012 to November 2015 the Internet Archive operated the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union a federal credit union based in New Brunswick New Jersey with the goal of providing access to low and middle income people Throughout its short existence the IAFCU experienced significant conflicts with the National Credit Union Administration which severely limited the IAFCU s loan portfolio and concerns over serving Bitcoin firms At the time of its dissolution it consisted of 395 members and was worth 2 5 million 155 156 Decentralization edit Since 2019 157 the Internet Archive organizes an event called Decentralized Web Camp DWeb Camp It is an annual camp that brings together a diverse global community of contributors in a natural setting The camp aims to tackle real world challenges facing the web and co create decentralized technologies for a better internet It aims to foster collaboration learning and fun while promoting principles of trust human agency mutual respect and ecological awareness 158 Wayforward Machine edit nbsp Screenshot of viewing English Wikipedia on the Wayforward MachineOn 30 September 2021 as a part of its 25th anniversary celebration Internet Archive launched the Wayforward Machine a satirical fictional website covered with pop ups asking for personal information The site was intended to depict a fictional dystopian timeline of real world events leading to such a future such as the repeal of Section 230 of the United States Code in 2022 and the introduction of advertising implants in 2041 159 160 Ceramic archivists collection edit nbsp Ceramic figures of Internet Archive employeesThe Great Room of the Internet Archive features a collection of more than 100 ceramic figures representing employees of the Internet Archive with the 100th statue immortalizing Aaron Swartz This collection inspired by the statues of the Xian warriors in China was commissioned by Brewster Kahle sculpted by Nuala Creed and as of 2014 is ongoing 161 Artists in residence edit The Internet Archive visual arts residency 162 organized by Amir Saber Esfahani is designed to connect emerging and mid career artists with the Archive s millions of collections and to show what is possible when open access to information intersects with the arts During this one year residency selected artists develop a body of work that responds to and utilizes the Archive s collections in their own practice 163 2019 Residency Artists Caleb Duarte Whitney Lynn and Jeffrey Alan Scudder 163 164 2018 Residency Artists Mieke Marple Chris Sollars and Taravat Talepasand 165 2017 Residency Artists Laura Kim Jeremiah Jenkins and Jenny Odell 166 Controversies legal disputes and activism edit nbsp The main hall of the current headquartersOpposition to National security letters bills and settlements edit nbsp nbsp A national security letter issued to the Internet Archive demanding information about a user On May 8 2008 it was revealed that the Internet Archive had successfully challenged an FBI national security letter asking for logs on an undisclosed user 167 168 On November 28 2016 it was revealed that a second FBI national security letter had been successfully challenged that had been asking for logs on another undisclosed user 169 The Internet Archive blacked out its web site for 12 hours on January 18 2012 in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act bills two pieces of legislation in the United States Congress that they argued would negatively affect the ecosystem of web publishing that led to the emergence of the Internet Archive This occurred in conjunction with the English Wikipedia blackout as well as numerous other protests across the Internet 170 The Internet Archive is a member of the Open Book Alliance which has been among the most outspoken critics of the Google Book Settlement The Archive advocates an alternative digital library project 171 Copyright takedowns edit See also Wayback Machine In legal evidence In November 2005 free downloads of Grateful Dead concerts were removed from the site following what seemed to be disagreements between some of the former band members John Perry Barlow identified Bob Weir Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann as the instigators of the change according to an article in The New York Times 172 Phil Lesh a founding member of the band commented on the change in a November 30 2005 posting to his personal web site It was brought to my attention that all of the Grateful Dead shows were taken down from Archive org right before Thanksgiving I was not part of this decision making process and was not notified that the shows were to be pulled I do feel that the music is the Grateful Dead s legacy and I hope that one way or another all of it is available for those who want it 173 A November 30 forum post from Brewster Kahle summarized what appeared to be the compromise reached among the band members Audience recordings could be downloaded or streamed but soundboard recordings were to be available for streaming only Concerts have since been re added 174 In February 2016 Internet Archive users had begun archiving digital copies of Nintendo Power Nintendo s official magazine for their games and products which ran from 1988 to 2012 The first 140 issues had been collected before Nintendo had the archive removed on August 8 2016 In response to the take down Nintendo told gaming website Polygon Nintendo must protect our own characters trademarks and other content The unapproved use of Nintendo s intellectual property can weaken our ability to protect and preserve it or to possibly use it for new projects 175 In August 2017 the Department of Telecommunications of the Government of India blocked the Internet Archive along with other file sharing websites in accordance with two court orders issued by the Madras High Court 176 citing piracy concerns after copies of two Bollywood films were allegedly shared via the service 177 The HTTP version of the Archive was blocked but it remained accessible using the HTTPS protocol 176 In 2023 the Internet Archive became a popular site for Indians to watch the first episode of India The Modi Question a BBC documentary 178 The video was reported to have been removed by the Archive on January 23 178 The Internet Archive then stated on January 27 that they had removed the video in response to a BBC request under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 179 The Great 78 Project had been started on the Internet Archive to store digitized versions of pre 1972 songs and albums from 78 rpm phonograph records for the stated purpose of the preservation research and discovery of 78rpm records The project had started in 2016 at which time the copyright on pre 1972 recordings only had limited duration in 2019 the U S Congress passed the Music Modernization Act which extended pre 1972 recording copyrights to 2067 In August 2023 Sony Music Entertainment and five other major music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project asserting the project was engaged in copyright theft denying the claim about research purposes since all the music was available via their respective digital and streaming music services The companies were seeking the statutory damages for nearly 2500 songs named in the suit for a total of 347 million 180 Hosting of disputed media edit On October 9 2016 the Internet Archive was temporarily blocked in Turkey after it was used amongst other file hosting services by hackers to host 17 GB of leaked government emails 181 182 Because the Internet Archive only lightly moderates uploads it includes resources that may be valued by extremists or may be used by them to evade block listing In May 2018 a report published by the cyber security firm Flashpoint stated that the Islamic State was using the Internet Archive to share its propaganda 183 Chris Butler from the Internet Archive responded that they regularly spoke to the US and EU governments about sharing information on terrorism 183 In April 2019 Europol acting on a referral from French police asked the Internet Archive to remove 550 sites of terrorist propaganda 184 The Archive rejected the request saying that the reports were wrong about the content they pointed to or were too broad for the organization to comply with 184 On July 14 2021 the Internet Archive held a joint Referral Action Day with Europol to target terrorist videos 185 A 2021 article said that jihadists regularly used the Internet Archive for dead drops of terrorist videos 186 In January 2022 a former UCLA lecturer s 800 page manifesto containing racist ideas and threats against UCLA staff was uploaded to the Internet Archive 187 The manifesto was removed by the Internet Archive after a week amidst discussion about whether such documents should be preserved by archivists or not 187 Another 2022 paper found an alarming volume of terrorist extremist and racist material on the Internet Archive 188 A 2023 paper reported that Neo Nazis collect links to online publicly available resources to be shared with new recruits As the Internet Archive hosts uploaded texts that are not allowed on other websites Nazi and neo Nazi books in the Archive e g The Turner Diaries frequently appear on these lists These lists also feature older public domain material created when white supremacist views were mainstream 189 National Emergency Library edit In the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic which closed many schools universities and libraries the Archive announced on March 24 2020 that it was creating the National Emergency Library by removing the lending restrictions it had in place for 1 4 million digitized books in its Open Library but otherwise limiting users to the number of books they could check out and enforcing their return normally the site would only allow one digital lending for each physical copy of the book they had by use of an encrypted file that would become unusable after the lending period was completed 4 This Library would remain as such until at least June 30 2020 or until the US national emergency was over whichever came later 190 At launch the Internet Archive allowed authors and rightholders to submit opt out requests for their works to be omitted from the National Emergency Library 191 192 193 The Internet Archive said the National Emergency Library addressed an unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research material due to the closures of physical libraries worldwide 194 They justified the move in a number of ways Legally they said they were promoting access to those inaccessible resources which they claimed was an exercise in fair use principles The Archive continued implementing their controlled digital lending policy that predated the National Emergency Library meaning they still encrypted the lent copies and it was no easier for users to create new copies of the books than before An ultimate determination of whether or not the National Emergency Library constituted fair use could only be made by a court Morally they also pointed out that the Internet Archive was a registered library like any other that they either paid for the books themselves or received them as donations and that lending through libraries predated copyright restrictions 191 195 The Archive had already been criticized by authors and publishers for its prior lending approach and upon announcement of the National Emergency Library authors publishers and groups representing both took further issue equating the move to copyright infringement and digital piracy and using the COVID 19 pandemic as a reason to push the boundaries of copyright see also Open Library Copyright violation accusations 193 196 197 198 After the works of some of these authors were ridiculed in responses the Internet Archive s Jason Scott requested that supporters of the National Emergency Library not denigrate anyone s books I realize there s strong debate and disagreement here but books are life giving and life changing and these writers made them 199 Publishers lawsuit edit Main article Hachette v Internet Archive The operation of the National Emergency Library was part of a lawsuit filed against the Internet Archive by four major book publishers Hachette HarperCollins John Wiley amp Sons and Penguin Random House in June 2020 challenging the copyright validity of the controlled digital lending program 4 102 200 In response the Internet Archive closed the National Emergency Library on June 16 2020 rather than the planned June 30 2020 due to the lawsuit 201 202 The plaintiffs supported by the Copyright Alliance 203 claimed in their lawsuit that the Internet Archive s actions constituted a willful mass copyright infringement 204 In August 2020 the lawsuit trial was tentatively scheduled to begin in November 2021 205 By June 2022 both parties to the case requested summary judgment for the case each favoring their respective sides which Judge John G Koeltl approved of a summary judgment hearing to take place later in 2022 206 No summary judgment was issued and instead a first hearing was held on March 20 2023 207 Over the course of the hearing Judge John G Koeltl appeared unmoved by the IA s fair use claims and unconvinced that the publishers market for library e books was not impacted by their practice 208 Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina chairman of the intellectual property subcommittee on the Senate Judiciary Committee said in a letter to the Internet Archive that he was concerned that the Internet Archive thinks that it not Congress gets to determine the scope of copyright law 204 As part of its response to the publishers lawsuit in late 2020 the Archive launched a campaign called Empowering Libraries hashtag EmpoweringLibraries that portrayed the lawsuit as a threat to all libraries 209 In a 2021 preprint article Argyri Panezi argued that the case presents two important but separate questions related to the electronic access to library works first it raises questions around the legal practice of digital lending and second it asks whether emergency use of copyrighted material might be fair use and argued that libraries have a public service role to enable future generations to keep having equal access or opportunities to access a plurality of original sources 210 In December 2020 Publishers Weekly included the lawsuit among its Top 10 Library Stories of 2020 211 Judge Koeltl ruled on March 24 2023 against Internet Archive in the case saying the National Emergency Library concept was not fair use so the Archive infringed their copyrights by lending out the books without the waitlist restriction An agreement was then reached for the Internet Archive to pay an undisclosed amount to the publishers 212 The Internet Archive said afterwards it would appeal this ruling but otherwise would continue other digital book services which have been previously cleared under case law such as books for reading impaired users 213 214 An updated report of the appeal process involving The Internet Archive was published on December 18 2023 by TorrentFreak News 215 See also edit nbsp Internet portal nbsp History portalList of online image archives Public domain music Similar projects edit archive today Internet Memory Foundation LibriVox National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program NDIIPP National Digital Library Program NDLP Project Gutenberg UK Government Web Archive at The National Archives United Kingdom UK Web Archive WebCite Other edit Anna s Archive Archive Team Digital dark age Digital preservation Heritrix Library Genesis Link rot List of web archives Memory hole PetaBox Search engine cacheNotes edit Books imported from Google have a metadata tag of scanner google for searching purposes The archive provides a link to Google for PDF copies but also maintains a local PDF copy which is viewable under the All Files HTTPS link As all the other books in the collection they also provide OCR text and images in open formats particularly DjVu which Google 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acclaimed titles in science technology art and architecture Now thanks to a new partnership between the Internet Archive and MIT Press readers will be able to borrow these classics online for the first time Green Alex December 1 2019 New Takes on Academic Publishing Three university presses find new ways to keep up with a changing market Publishers Weekly Archived from the original on June 27 2020 Retrieved June 27 2020 Since she became director of the MIT Press in 2015 there s little that Brand hasn t reenvisioned at the press In 2017 the press partnered with the Internet Archive to make its deep backlist available for free at libraries resurrecting books that had not seen the light of day in generations Freeland Chris May 21 2018 Internet Archive awarded grant from Arcadia Fund to digitize university press collections blog archive org Retrieved June 27 2020 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 Albanese Andrew May 25 2018 Internet Archive Lands Grant to Digitize and Lend University Press Collections Publishers Weekly Archived from the original on June 27 2020 Retrieved June 27 2020 For example hdl loc gov loc gdc scd0001 00198115083 archived from the original on July 4 2021 retrieved November 25 2020 hdl loc gov loc gdc scd0001 00060921933 archived from the original on July 4 2021 retrieved November 25 2020 hdl loc gov loc gdc scd0001 00060927248 archived from the original on July 4 2021 retrieved November 25 2020 hdl loc gov loc gdc scd0001 00001740908 archived from the original on July 4 2021 retrieved November 25 2020 hdl loc gov loc gdc scd0001 00027740005 archived from the original on July 4 2021 retrieved November 25 2020 Hohman J Cheyenne Mughal Yasmeen 2017 April 2011 External Web Sites Finding E books A Guide Library of Congress Bibliographies Research Guides and Finding Aids Virtual Programs amp Services Library of Congress Archived from the original on November 25 2020 Retrieved November 25 2020 The Internet Archive includes the full text of more than 2 5 million e books including e books supplied by the Library of Congress Books can be read online or downloaded and read in a variety of formats E books from the Internet Archive can also be found through Open Library an Internet Archive initiative devoted to texts And Hohman J Cheyenne Mughal Yasmeen 2017 April 2011 Devices and Formats Finding E books A Guide Library of Congress Bibliographies Research Guides and Finding Aids Virtual Programs amp Services Library of Congress Archived from the original on February 12 2021 Retrieved November 25 2020 Library of Congress publications are available for free download to the Kindle from the Internet Archive The iPad can be used as an e reader via apps such as iBooks which support both ePub epub and PDF pdf formats Both formats are available from the Internet Archive Download amp Streaming Audio Archive Internet Archive Archived from the original on February 5 2019 Retrieved January 10 2023 a b Pritchard Will August 18 2017 How The Great 78 Project is saving half a million songs from obscurity The Vinyl Factory Archived from the original on November 7 2017 Retrieved November 2 2017 Holt Kris October 5 2022 The Internet Archive is building a library of amateur radio broadcasts Engadget Archived from the original on October 9 2022 Retrieved October 9 2022 Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grants Continue American Radio Relay League January 27 2022 Archived from the original on October 9 2022 Retrieved October 9 2022 Tirpack Alex June 3 2009 Warren Zevon live shows hit the web possible film in the works Rolling Stone Archived from the original on February 2 2013 Welcome to Netlabels Internet Archive Archived from the original on April 4 2014 Boswell Wendy October 21 2006 Download free music at the Internet Archive Lifehacker Archived from the original on May 5 2012 The Internet Archive has a ginormous collection of free downloadable music in their NetLabels category Image Internet Archive Archived from the original on June 16 2022 Retrieved October 12 2020 Cover Art Archive Free Image Download amp Streaming Internet Archive Archived from the original on June 25 2017 Retrieved December 4 2014 Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery Images Free Image Download amp Streaming Internet Archive Archived from the original on January 3 2015 Retrieved December 4 2014 NASA Images archive Internet Archive Archived from the original on November 11 2012 Retrieved April 13 2013 Occupy Wall Street Flickr Archive Free Image Download amp Streaming Internet Archive Archived from the original on January 3 2015 Retrieved December 4 2014 USGS Maps Free Image Download amp Streaming Internet Archive Archived from the original on January 3 2015 Retrieved December 4 2014 Welcome to Machinima Internet Archive Archived from the original on March 23 2013 Internet Archive Search collection microfilm Internet Archive Archived from the original on March 31 2016 Retrieved March 20 2014 Microfilm Internet Archive Archived from the original on March 20 2014 Retrieved March 20 2014 Internet Archive Search Collection Feature Films Internet Archive Archived from the original on April 2 2013 Retrieved March 6 2013 FedFlix Internet Archive Retrieved December 14 2013 September 11th Television Archive Internet Archive Archived from the original on April 3 2014 Download amp Streaming Open Educational Resources Internet Archive Archived from the original on July 2 2014 Retrieved June 17 2014 TV NEWS Search Captions Borrow Broadcasts TV Archive Internet Archive Archived from the original on April 20 2013 Retrieved April 13 2013 Fowler Geoffrey A Hagey Keach September 18 2012 Let s Go to the Videotape Nonprofit Offers News Clips The Wall Street Journal Online Archived from the original on April 24 2013 subscription required Kahle Brewster September 17 2012 Launch of TV News Search amp Borrow with 350 000 Broadcasts Internet Archive Blogs Archived from the original on August 13 2014 Brownell Brett Benjy Hansen Brandy May 22 2014 Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet Mother Jones Archived from the original on June 7 2014 Retrieved June 7 2014 Brooklyn Museum Free Image Download amp Streaming Internet Archive Archived from the original on January 3 2015 Retrieved December 4 2014 Column Lillian Michelson and her one of a kind film library get a digital Hollywood ending Los Angeles Times January 28 2021 Archived from the original on February 8 2021 Retrieved February 7 2021 Internet Archive founder turns to new information storage device the book The Guardian August 1 2011 Archived from the original on August 22 2012 Brewster Kahle the man behind a project to file every webpage now wants to gather one copy of every published book The Internet Archive Classic Software Preservation Project Internet Archive Archived from the original on October 19 2007 Retrieved October 21 2007 Internet Archive Gets DMCA Exemption To Help Archive Vintage Software Archived from the original on October 20 2007 Retrieved October 21 2007 Library of Congress Copyright Office November 27 2006 Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies Federal Register 71 227 68472 68480 Archived from the original on November 1 2007 Retrieved October 21 2007 Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer 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January 9 2015 collection softwarelibrary msdos Archived from the original on June 28 2015 Graft Kris March 5 2015 Saving video game history begins right now Gamasutra Archived from the original on March 7 2015 Retrieved March 5 2015 Internet Archive s Terms of Use Privacy Policy and Copyright Policy December 31 2014 Archived from the original on January 3 2015 Retrieved January 8 2015 Access to the Archive s Collections is provided at no cost to you and is granted for scholarship and research purposes only Lu Kathy January 12 2015 Time suck alert Pac Man among thousands of MS DOS games available for free The Kansas City Star Archived from the original on December 20 2016 Retrieved December 7 2016 O Neil Lauren January 7 2015 90 s kids rejoice as Internet Archive releases 2 300 MS DOS games for free Your Community CBCNEWS Archived from the original on October 17 2016 Retrieved December 7 2016 Campbell Ian Carlos November 19 2020 The Internet Archive is now preserving Flash games and animations The Verge Archived from the original on November 20 2020 Retrieved November 19 2020 Table Top Scribe System Internet Archive Archived from the original on October 10 2018 Retrieved October 23 2018 Stutz Michael March 28 2007 Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history Linux com The Linux foundation Archived from the original on October 23 2017 Strozniak Peter December 18 2015 Death of a Credit Union Internet Archive FCU Voluntarily Liquidates Credit Union Times Archived from the original on October 6 2019 Retrieved October 6 2019 Difficult Times at our Credit Union Internet Archive Blogs November 24 2015 Archived from the original on June 16 2019 Retrieved October 6 2019 Coming this Summer The First DWeb Camp Internet Archive Blogs March 24 2019 Retrieved July 4 2023 DWeb Camp 2023 dwebcamp org Archived from the original on July 3 2023 Retrieved July 4 2023 Holt Kris October 7 2021 The Internet Archive s Wayforward Machine paints a grim future for the web Engadget Archived from the original on October 7 2021 Retrieved October 7 2021 Imagine the future of the Internet Internet Archive Archived from the original on November 17 2021 Retrieved October 7 2021 Levy Karyne April 29 2014 These Are The Ceramic Action Figures For The Heroes Of The Internet Business Insider Insider Inc Archived from the original on July 4 2021 Retrieved July 12 2019 Internet Archive is a treasure trove of material for artists SFChronicle com August 11 2017 Archived from the original on August 1 2019 Retrieved August 1 2019 a b Amir Saber Esfahani June 22 2019 The Internet Archive s 2019 Artists in Residency Exhibition Internet Archive Blogs Archived from the original on June 24 2019 Retrieved March 4 2023 The Internet Archive s 2019 Artist In Residence Exhibition Artsy Archived from the original on March 5 2023 Retrieved March 4 2023 Amir Saber Esfahani June 19 2018 The Internet Archive s 2018 Artis in Residency Exhibition Internet Archives Blogs Archived from the original on June 26 2018 Retrieved March 4 2023 The Internet Archive s 2017 Artist in residence Exhibition Minnesota Street Project 2017 Archived from the original on July 26 2017 Retrieved March 5 2023 Broache Anne May 7 2008 FBI rescinds secret order for Internet Archive records CNet Archived from the original on May 15 2008 Nakashima Ellen May 8 2008 FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data After Lawsuit The Washington Post Archived from the original on September 6 2008 Crocker Andrew December 1 2016 Internet Archive Received National Security Letter with FBI Misinformation about Challenging Gag Order Electronic Frontier Foundation Archived from the original on December 13 2016 Kahle Brewster January 17 2012 12 Hours Dark Internet Archive vs Censorship Internet Archive Blogs Archived from the original on August 13 2014 Open Content Alliance opencontentalliance org Archived from the original on April 10 2013 Retrieved April 13 2013 Leeds Jeff Mayshark Jesse Fox December 1 2005 Wrath 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BBC s Modi documentary The Hindu Archived from the original on January 29 2023 Retrieved January 29 2023 Butler Chris January 27 2023 BBC Modi Documentary Removal Internet Archive Retrieved January 29 2023 Burnsom Robert August 11 2023 Sony Other Music Labels Sue Over Sinatra 78s Stored Online Bloomberg News Archived from the original on August 12 2023 Retrieved August 12 2023 Turkey restores access to Google Drive after blocking cloud storage services Turkey Blocks October 10 2016 Archived from the original on September 24 2017 Retrieved October 10 2016 Turkey Country Report Freedom on the Net 2017 freedomhouse org November 14 2017 Archived from the original on December 27 2018 Retrieved December 26 2018 a b Kelion Leo May 15 2018 IS propaganda hidden on Internet Archive BBC News Archived from the original on February 6 2022 Retrieved February 6 2022 a b Internet Archive denies hosting terrorist content BBC News April 12 2019 Archived from the original on February 6 2022 Retrieved 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