Category Archives: News

Microphone Check: Thousands of Hip-Hop Mixtapes at the Archive

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Jason Scott

The Internet Archive has been growing an interesting sub-collection of music for the past few months: Hip-Hop Mixtapes. The resulting collection still has a way to go before it’s anywhere near what is out there (limited by bandwidth and a few other … Continue reading →

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Wayback Machine captures Melania Trump’s deleted internet bio

Posted on July 28, 2016 by nancyw

Melania Trump’s personal website is now gone from the internet — but is preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine — after a Huffington Post reporter and other news outlets began questioning elements of the would-be First Lady’s biography. Yesterday Christina Wilkie, … Continue reading →

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Pokébarbarians at the Gate

Posted on July 27, 2016 by David Rinehart

Millions of people from around the world visit the Internet Archive every day to read books, listen to audio recordings, watch films, use the Wayback Machine to revisit almost half a billion web pages, and much more. Lately, though, we’ve … Continue reading →

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The Copyright Office is trying to redefine libraries, but libraries don’t want it — Who is it for?

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Lila Bailey

The Library Copyright Alliance (which represents the American Library Association and the Association of Research Libraries) has said it does not want changes, the Society of American Archivists has said it does not want changes. The Internet Archive does not … Continue reading →

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Is it 1968? Not really — but past convention video clips show controversy

Posted on July 18, 2016 by nancyw

Research by Robin Chin Is it 1968? Many pundits have been asking this question in recent days, in the lead up to what is expected to be a contentious–and some worry about violent–GOP convention in Cleveland, where Donald Trump is expected to … Continue reading →

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New Rita Allen Foundation grant fuels political ad tracking through Election Day

Posted on July 15, 2016 by nancyw

As the Democrats and Republicans convene at their national party conventions in coming weeks, the general election kicks into full swing. Thanks to generous support from the Rita Allen Foundation, we are delighted to announce that the Political TV Ad … Continue reading →

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Unlocking Books for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Lila Bailey

The Internet Archive has been making print materials more accessible to the blind and print disabled for years, but now with Canada’s joining the Marrakesh Treaty, our sister organization, the Internet Archive Canada might be able to serve people in … Continue reading →

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Decentralized Web Server: Possible Approach with Cost and Performance Estimates

Posted on June 23, 2016 by brewster

At the first Decentralized Web Summit Tim Berners-Lee asked if a content-addressable peer-to-peer server system scales to the demands of the World Wide Web. This is meant to be a partial answer to a piece of the puzzle.  For background, … Continue reading →

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Geez, Now Internet Insurance?

Posted on June 16, 2016 by brewster

We seem to make some people mad. The Internet Archive, a non-profit library, hosts many things. Many, many things. Billions of old webpages, lots of concerts, nostalgia computer games, TV, books, old movies, contributed books, music, and video, and much … Continue reading →

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Copyright Office’s Proposed Notice and Staydown System Would Force the Internet Archive and Other Platforms to Censor the Web

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Lila Bailey

In May, the US Copyright Office came to San Francisco to hear from various stakeholders about how well Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA is working. The Internet Archive appeared at these hearings to talk about … Continue reading →

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Web Archiving with National Libraries

Posted on May 26, 2016 by helen

After the Internet Archive started web archiving in the late 1990s, National libraries also took their first steps towards systematic preservation of the web. Over 30 national libraries currently have a web archiving programme. Many among them archive the web … Continue reading →

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IA + ARC + Cuba

Posted on May 24, 2016 by michelle

Cuba Music Week is a live and online effort – both crowd sourced and curated – to highlight the importance and beauty of Cuban Music. One goal is to introduce people to ideas and music from this vibrant culture. In … Continue reading →

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The tech powering the Political TV Ad Archive

Posted on May 12, 2016 by danschultz

Ever wonder how we built the Political TV Ad Archive? This post explains what happens back stage — how we are using advanced technology to generate the counts for how many times a particular ad has aired on television, where, … Continue reading →

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Discover Books Donates Large Numbers of Books

Posted on May 11, 2016 by brewster

Internet Archive is proud to partner with Discover Books, a major used book seller, to help let the stories in books live on.   Discover books is donating books that the Internet Archive does not yet own and would have gone … Continue reading →

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Google Library Project Legal: Let the Robots Read!

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Lila Bailey

The decade-long legal battle over Google’s massive book scanning project is finally over, and it’s a huge win for libraries and fair use. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the Author’s Guild, which had argued … Continue reading →

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Join us for “How Digital Memory is Shaping our Future” with Abby Smith Rumsey– April 26

Posted on April 15, 2016 by michelle

What is the future of human memory? What will people know about us when we are gone? Abby Smith Rumsey, historian and author, has explored these important questions and more in her new book When We Are No More: How Digital … Continue reading →

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Upcoming changes in epub generation

Posted on April 14, 2016 by brewster

Epub is a format for ebooks that is used on book reader devices.   It is often mostly text, but can incorporate images. The Internet Archive offers these in two cases:  when a user uploads them, and when they are created … Continue reading →

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New video shows rich resources available at Political TV Ad Archive

Posted on April 7, 2016 by nancyw

Since our launch on January 22, the Political TV Ad Archive has archived more than 1,080 ads with more than 155,000 airings. We’ve trained hundreds of journalists, students, and other interested members of the public with face-to-face trainings. But much … Continue reading →

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Getting back to “View Source” on the Web: the Movable Web / Decentralized Web

Posted on April 5, 2016 by brewster

The Web 1.0 moved so fast partly because you could “View Source” on a webpage you liked and then modify and re-use it to make your own webpages. This even worked with pages with JavaScript programs—you could see how it … Continue reading →

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The Internet Archive, ALA, and SAA Brief Filed in TV News Fair Use Case

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Lila Bailey

The Internet Archive, joined by the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Society of American Archivists filed an amicus brief in Fox v. TVEyes on March 23, 2016. In … Continue reading →

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