Notices by internetarchive (internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)

🚨 Our new podcast—Future Knowledge—is coming June 4th, but the teaser episode is out now!

🗣️ Get a sneak peek at what’s ahead: conversations on digital culture & the future of knowledge. Co-hosted with Authors Alliance.

🎧 Listen & subscribe: https://archive.org/details/future-knowledge

📚 Fair use empowers libraries, learners, journalists & creators—it’s essential to a healthy digital society.

With turmoil at the Copyright Office, @brewsterkahle urges us: don’t lose sight of fair use.

Read the post ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/05/14/protect-fair-use-especially-now/

🎮 From Pac-Man to Nosh Kosh—retro games shaped generations. But many are vanishing.

Only 13% of classic games from 1960–2009 are still available. Some, like Jewish educational games by Yaakov Kirschen, who died on April 14 at 87, were almost lost forever.

Journalist Josh Renaud @kirkman explains why preserving niche software matters in the latest essay from the Vanishing Culture report.

🔗 Read the full essay: https://blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/vanishing-culture-recovering-lost-software/

This National Library Week, get an early look at an upcoming documentary from Structure Films about the Internet Archive and its founder, @brewsterkahle.

The film follows Brewster’s battle to protect public access to knowledge and defend digital freedom—a fight that could shape the future of the internet.

Watch the full preview: https://vimeo.com/1056104575/df4b0f66c1

Support the film: https://fiscal.thegotham.org/project.cfm/5557/Untitled-Internet-Archive-Film/

How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole ➡️ https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-archive

More books & periodicals are online than any library can hold. Should we rethink how we access & navigate them?

@BBCWorldService The Forum explores the past, present & future of libraries with Brewster Kahle, Randa Chidiac & Dr. Andrew Hui.

🎧 Listen now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5jy0

#DigitalLibraries #FutureOfLibraries #KnowledgeForAll @brewsterkahle @internetarchive

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🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?

From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian @brewsterkahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.

🎧 Listen now: https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark

🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾

📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save

Consumers are being sold an illusion of ownership. "Buy" a digital movie, an e-book, or a game today? Tomorrow, it could vanish. 🕳️

Senator Ron Wyden is calling on the FTC to crack down on this digital "bait-and-switch." Read the letter & learn what's at stake in our latest post ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/28/wyden-to-ftc-stop-digital-bait-and-switch-sales/

"How the Wayback Machine is preserving outdated government websites" via CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-the-wayback-machine-is-preserving-outdated-government-websites/

On January 22, hundreds of people worldwide joined SINGIN' IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, a virtual celebration of the books, films, and music now free to share, remix, and reimagine in 2025!

The livestream is available to watch: https://archive.org/details/singin-in-the-public-domain

🧶💾 Punch cards aren’t just relics of computing—they’re still powering knitting machines today! Discover how hobbyists & archivists are preserving this blend of tech + textile in the latest post from our Vanishing Culture series. ⁠

🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/12/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting/
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🕳️ #VanishingCulture⁠

On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons

Learn more: https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/aaron-swartz-marble-statue-unveiled-internet-archive/

Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️

Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/update-on-the-2024-2025-end-of-term-web-archive/

🚧 What do dancing babies, "under construction" signs, and bubble-gum-blowing Furbys tell us about digital preservation? In the latest essay for the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture series, writer JD Shadel explores the rise, fall, and cultural legacy of early Internet GIFs—and why they matter today.⁠
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🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/
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🕳️ #VanishingCulture⁠

Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: https://eotarchive.org/

Congrats "WHEN I LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND" by Queline Meadows.

First Place winner of the Internet Archive's 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest.

The short blends movies, images, music & text into a meditation on time’s passage. Explore all the winners: https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/23/2025-public-domain-day-film-remix-contest-winners-announced/

#FilmRemix #PublicDomain #CreativeWorks

Celebrate the public domain with the Internet Archive on Wednesday, January 22nd ⤵️

10am PT—Register for our VIRTUAL party: https://eventbrite.com/e/singin-in-the-public-domain-public-domain-day-2025-tickets-1104135491979

6pm PT—Come to the Internet Archive for our IN-PERSON film screening: https://eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-public-domain-day-2025-at-the-internet-archive-tickets-1117297439719

Popeye, Mickey Mouse & Winnie the Pooh walk into a bar...

It’s not a joke—it’s a creative opportunity! On January 1, 2025, Popeye joined Mickey & Pooh in the public domain in the US, along with other works published in 1929 and sound recordings from 1924. Now, anyone can remix, reuse, and reimagine these works in new creations.

But, character copyright is complicated. 🔗 Learn more in the latest Empowering Libraries newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/8f9604c74fda/empowering-libraries-17004192?e=a763dc3ae2

Original illustration by Wojtek Florek.