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Who gets to own what we create?
On Educating to Be Human, host Lisa Petrides talks with Internet Archive Senior Policy Counsel Lila Bailey about the tension between knowledge as a shared cultural commons & knowledge controlled through copyright, licensing, and corporate platforms.
They also examine what public knowledge infrastructure could look like, including AI tools built and supported by libraries, schools, and civic institutions.
🎧 Listen to WHO OWNS KNOWLEDGE with Lila Bailey:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…@EdutobeHuman
🗂️ Ever seen those tiny images of old documents on sheets of film? That’s microfiche! So, how do those go from film to the Internet Archive? See how these records are digitized at the Physical Archive tour!
It's a once-a-year opportunity to witness preservation processes up close.
📆 Tues, Oct 20
🕕 6–8 PM
📍 IN-PERSON: Richmond, CA
🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/19976135067…
ALT Maeve Iwasaki demonstrates microfiche digitization at the Internet Archive's physical archive. Photo by Brad Shirakawa, October 21, 2025.
ALT Photo of Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive’s physical archive site. He is leaning forward and looking into a large shipping container used for storage, with pallets visible inside.
The Internet Archive building is 103 years old, but it still looks like it did in 1923. 🏛️ Built as the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, the Internet Archive purchased it in 2009. Same building, totally different mission. 📚
The Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon featured it in its “Then and Now” series. See it and more historic San Francisco photos ⤵️
richmondsunsetnews.com/?s=th…@RichmondSunset
ALT Screenshot of the Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon website, dated Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026, showing its masthead with a Golden Gate Bridge banner photo and navigation menu, above a "Then and Now" article titled "Clement Street and Funston Avenue." The article shows two side-by-side photos: on the left, a black-and-white 1930 photo of the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist and Reading Room, a Classical Revival building built in 1923 by architect Carl Werner; on the right, a color 2020s photo of the same building, captioned as now home to the Internet Archive, which purchased it in 2009.
“Fix the Wayback Machine!”
We’ve heard you. The @waybackmachine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. @markgraham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it.
➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/…
Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web.
Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the @waybackmachine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/…
BET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever.
Some writers were able to save their stories; some weren't
Builders: here’s a chance to make something new from a massive public archive.
Internet Archive Canada @internetarcCA is offering a $5,000 fellowship to build new tools using 22M+ pages of open Canadian government publications.
Applications close Aug. 21 → bc-ai.ca/fellowship
ALT The public record is huge. Make it do something weird and useful.
ALT Promotional graphic for the Current Affairs article "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Mark Graham and Chris Freeland, both wearing glasses, are pictured against a background of burning books. The Current Affairs masthead appears at the top in white serif type on black.
ALT White card with centered black serif text reading: "From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive's Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it." The Current Affairs name appears below in pink, followed by a decorative flourish.
ALT Opening paragraph of the Current Affairs article "Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?" Large decorative W begins the text, which describes how websites go dark, governments purge public records, and streaming platforms remove films and music. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is introduced as a tool preserving snapshots of a constantly rewritten web.
Several local newspaper companies — USA Today Co., McClatchy, Advance Local, MediaNews Group, and Tribune Publishing — have begun blocking @internetarchive's access.
That's more than 340 U.S. local news sites in all, a new @NiemanLab analysis by @decka227 and @HanaaTameez shows.
Several local newspaper companies — USA Today Co., McClatchy, Advance Local, MediaNews Group, and Tribune Publishing — have begun blocking @internetarchive's access.
That's more than 340 U.S. local news sites in all, a new @NiemanLab analysis by @decka227 and @HanaaTameez shows.
🧵 1️⃣/5️⃣ Announcing Internet Archive Switzerland: Expanding a Global Mission to Preserve Knowledge 🇨🇭🌍
Thirty years ago, Brewster Kahle founded Internet Archive with one goal: Universal Access to All Knowledge. That mission expands with the launch of Internet Archive Switzerland.
Visit Internet Archive Switzerland ➡️ internetarchive.ch
ALT Logo of the Internet Archive Switzerland. Black text on a white background.
Publishers fighting AI companies are increasingly colliding with web preservation systems ⚖️
In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, Mike Masnick examines how attempts to block AI scraping can restrict access to vital archiving tools like the Wayback Machine, creating collateral damage for the public record.
🎧 Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.f…#WaybackMachine#AI#WebArchive#FutureKnowledge@mmasnick
News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️
Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out.
Add your name. Stand for preserving the news.
✍️ savethearchive.com/NewsLeade…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional is one of the most studied decisions in American history. But the briefs filed in Brown v. Board of Education reveal dimensions that the opinion alone does not capture.
Those briefs are now accessible to everyone on the Internet Archive, thanks to the Wolf Law Library at @WMLawSchool.
Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/…
ALT Grid of three images. Left: Linda Brown Smith, Ethel Louise Belton Brown, Harry Briggs, Jr., and Spottswood Bolling, Jr. — all plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education during a 1964 press conference. Image from the Library of Congress. Top Right: The official seal of the United States Supreme Court, featuring a circular design with the words “Supreme Court of the United States” surrounding a central emblem of a balanced scale of justice and a laurel wreath, symbolizing law, authority, and fairness. Bottom Right: Monogram of William & Mary Law School featuring a dark green background and a white intertwined “W&M” topped by a crown, referencing the university’s royal charter.
ALT The cover page of the Brief for Appellants filed in Brown v. Board of Education, Supreme Court of the United States, October Term 1952. The document is stamped as received by the Supreme Court Office on September 23, 1952. Listed as counsel for appellants are Robert L. Carter, Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood W. Robinson III, and Charles S. Scott, along with a number of additional attorneys of counsel including Constance Baker Motley and Jack Greenberg. The document is a microfilm scan, slightly aged and worn at the edges.
ALT Infographic highlighting that over 470,000 pages from the MTV News website have been preserved by the Internet Archive since 1997. The design includes a large “470,000” headline and a visual timeline starting at 1997, with a partial MTV News webpage graphic. Supporting text notes additional pages preserved from CMT News.
Hooray for #NationalLibraryWeek! 📚
Internet Archive's mission is Universal Access to All Knowledge, and we’re proud to be a Federal Depository Library.
Books 📖, movies 🎞️, music 🎧, software 💾, web pages 🌐 and much more await on the Internet Archive: the library in your pocket.
Explore our collections ➡️ archive.org#Libraries#LibraryLove#Books#Reading#BookTwitter
ALT Two headphone-wearing people seated in the "Listen" station at the Internet Archive, surrounded by shelves with record albums.
ALT A person at the Internet Archive turning the pages of a book being digitized on a "scribe" station, which uses two cameras to shoot opposing pages simultaneously.
ALT A person at the Internet Archive operating a Lasergraphics ScanStation digital film scanner, in the procress of scanning 8mm film.
ALT Server racks with blue "blinkenlights" at the Internet Archive.
The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.
Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.
Read the full announcement ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/…@WMLawSchool#SupremeCourt#DemocracysLibrary
ALT The official seal of the United States Supreme Court, featuring a circular design with the words “Supreme Court of the United States” surrounding a central emblem of a balanced scale of justice and a laurel wreath, symbolizing law, authority, and fairness.
ALT Monogram of William & Mary Law School featuring a white intertwined “W&M” topped by a crown, referencing the university’s royal charter.