On June 1, 2020, four major book publishers filed suit in the Southern District of New York seeking to enjoin IA and its free library system from infringing the publishers' copyrights for their ...

Mentor Public Library will be offering seven free computer classes later in August at its Main Branch, including introductions on how to use genealogy databases and Microsoft Word. The classes will be ...

For example, it’s now a given that just about every public library in the US has computer terminals for accessing the internet. It’s just a part of what you expect a library to do. But when ...

"As a federal depository library, the Internet Archive will help remove barriers so that ... and other materials) in its online database. Government documents are copyright-free. Last year, the ...

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and ...

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

With its other online collections, the Internet Archive had said it was lending out one digital copy of a book to one reader at a time, but the nonprofit suspended that policy for the National ...

John Carlo Bertot 1, Charles R. McClure 2, Paul T. Jaeger 3, The Impacts of Free Public Internet Access on Public Library Patrons and Communities, The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy ...

In recent weeks, the digital library dedicated to preserving the internet’s history has been under attack by the internet itself. The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library based in California, was ...

A few weeks before Operation Little Free Library, the city, also acting on anonymous 311 complaints, distributed at least three similar notices on a quiet street in the Bernal Heights neighborhood.

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 5, 2024, Section B, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Internet Archive Loses Legal Fight With Book Publishers Over Lending Library.