An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more
This month, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited … LinkedIn: Kyle K. Courtney . Bluesky: @ecowarriorss . Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social LinkedIn: Kyle K. Courtney : It's an honor to be quoted in Ashley Belanger's excellent Ars Technica piece on the Internet Archive's long legal journey and what comes next for libraries and digital access. … Bluesky: @ecowarriorss : Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost — In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive's “Open Library.” — arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : Brewster Kahle says that in the aftermath of the copyright attacks on the Archive, “the world became stupider.” I agree. — Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost — https://arstechnica.com/...