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Thank you for the outpouring of support with
#ProtectTheInternetArchive
❤️ We’ve gotten many requests about how you can support our appeal. Tell the publishers we want to buy & OWN (not RENT) ebooks we can preserve & lend for the public good👉
#SellDontSue
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Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)!
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Sorry, but is down temporarily-- working to restore service.
(details: this is our second blast of abusive traffic from an AWS customer today apparently from an AI company harvesting Internet Archive texts at an extreme rate)
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Did you know that the Internet Archive has a physical archive that houses millions of books (as in: actual, physical, paper books)? For every book that we lend to users online, we have a physical copy that is preserved in our archive. A 🧵
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1/3 As most of you know, we are currently facing a lawsuit brought by 4 corporate publishers who want to stop the Internet Archive from lending books.
#EmpoweringLibraries
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Friend of the Court Briefs Filed in Internet Archive’s Appeal — Hundreds of librarians joined prominent library organizations & non-profits in filing amicus briefs in Hachette v. Internet Archive. Read why they believe our appeal should succeed:
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📢👇
The Internet Archive, a digital library aiming to make published materials accessible to everyone, is in danger of being shut down by four major publishers. If the publishers are successful, free access to knowledge will be in jeopardy.
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2/3 Yesterday, both parties in the lawsuit filed summary judgment briefs. Today, we are hosting a press conference about this development.
#EmpoweringLibraries
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3/3 The press conference is invitation-only but we’ll be live-tweeting key moments throughout the morning. Stay tuned.
#EmpoweringLibraries
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This is why libraries need to be able to own digital media instead of just renting it from corporate landlords…who is preserving these shows?
HBO Max made a sudden announcement today that it will remove numerous titles THIS WEEK, including lots of animation. Why is the streamer purging its animation library? Why do it without warning mid-month? It's unclear at the moment. Here’s the new list of what’s being removed.
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“Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation said that basically half of all American films made before 1950 are lost, & none of the major distributors are looking for them. Even worse, they said that more than 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever.”
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2/ We use the Scribe, a book scanner our engineers invented, along with the software that it runs.
Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond.
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@SAAAM_III_AAAAM
You would get scanned like this desiccated lizard we found in one of our books.
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Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries & the communities we serve.
But it’s not over—we will keep fighting for the traditional right of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books. Learn more & take action👇
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4/ Now imagine this: scanners like Eliza have done this 2,000,000 times.
That's what it takes to provide you with a free digital library.
#empoweringlibraries
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The 90s are back! Relive the decade with this publicly available version of popular drawing software, Kid Pix! As featured in our monthly collections highlight email:
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3/ Eliza is one of our fastest and most accurate scanners. Next she will execute quality control checks and fix any errors. Then she ships the book back to our Physical Archive for long-term preservation.
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is back!
(and it may not have been an AI company, maybe just an eager user)
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At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We do this so that everyone, everywhere has access to a great research library.
#digitization
#preservation
#access
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This is how we digitize the books in our physical library collection. We turn every page by hand to avoid damaging the spine and pages ❤️ 📖
#lovebooks
#EmpoweringLibraries
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Welcome to the public domain, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
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This is why libraries need to be able to own digital media.
#DigitalRightsForLibraries
This is going to happen again with streaming btw
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It’s time to stand up for libraries! ✊The Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit will be heard in court on Monday. Will libraries be able to continue owning, lending and preserving books? Show your support here:
@fightfortheftr
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The lawsuit against our library is about more than the Internet Archive - it is about the role of all libraries in the digital age.
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Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For 4 years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder
@brewster_kahle
calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.”
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Yesterday we filed our final brief in the lawsuit by 4 corporate publishers against our nonprofit library:
Here’s why we’re still fighting for library digital rights, and why YOU should care 🧵
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If you see something, save something. Use Save Page Now to save URLs at
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Explore >1,000 classic sound effects rescued from crumbling magnetic tape in the Sunset Editorial Sound Effects Library from the USC Archive ⤵️
Included in the collection is the full recording session of the famous 'Wilhelm scream'... 1/2
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Deepest thanks to our dedicated
#library
scanning partners at
@BPLBoston
@WellcomeLibrary
@UofT
@uofalibrary
@National_Ag_Lib
@GettyMuseum
@prelinger
@ACPL
@PTSLibrary
and countless satellite scanning locations worldwide. We work together one book, one page at a time. 💪📚
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We get our books the same way as other libraries: we buy books and we receive donated books. Some of those donations come from libraries that are reevaluating their physical collections, like Hamilton Public Library:
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Rather than circulate the physical book we own, we lend a scanned digital copy of the book to one user at a time through the library practice known as controlled digital lending. Here’s how it works:
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Now imagine that ⬇️ at library scale. This is why libraries need to be able to own digital media, instead of being forced to rent temporary access from corporate landlords.
Apple TV lost my 650 movies. That I own. Every upgrade in my Apple phone makes it worse. Our entire universe can be hacked or lost at any moment. The new billionaires that have addicted us to a new completely defenseless world need to be held accountable. Fix this fucking thing!
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And some books come to us from libraries that are shutting down forever, like Marygrove College. The school closed in 2019 & rather than sell off the collection, the Board donated the entire library to us for preservation & digitization:
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Today, the Internet Archive submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive. As we stated when the decision was handed down in March, we believe the lower court made errors in facts and law, so we are fighting on in the face of great challenges.
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Following the buzz around Mickey Mouse & Steamboat Willie entering the public domain, we're thrilled to announce that we've unlocked the relevant works from 1928 on our site! 🎞️📚🎶 Explore our curated list now:
Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)!
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There are hundreds of libraries that are using controlled digital lending to reach their patrons where they are reading & learning today: online.
#EmpoweringLibraries
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So, for each of the 65k books now available to borrow from the Marygrove College collection at , the actual book we scanned has been preserved in our physical archive. But those physical books don’t circulate.
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So great to hear you’ve decided to take a stand against book censorship. Does this mean you’ll be dropping your lawsuit against libraries, too?
💥BANNED BOOKS NEWS💥
Penguin Random House sues Iowa in an effort to halt censorship in America.
Learn more here:
#BannedBooks
#ReadBannedBooks
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And what can you do with the mouse now that he’s in the public domain? Well, it’s complicated:
Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)!
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Wondering how you can support us in our appeal? Tell the publishers we want to buy & OWN (not RENT) ebooks we can preserve & lend for the public good👉
#SellDontSue
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This viral tweet from 2021 has taken off again 📖 Always happy to take people behind the scenes to see the inner workings of our library!
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Thank you to everyone who has supported the Internet Archive - and all libraries - during this lawsuit. The judge will hear oral argument on Monday. Make your voice heard:
@fightfortheftr
#EmpoweringLibraries
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Did you love this video? We might not be allowed to use books scanned by machines like this much longer... A new lawsuit by 4 corporate publishers threatens libraries' right to digitize & lend the books we own. Fight back at
#empoweringlibraries
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Welcome to the public domain, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (an inspiration for Batman’s The Joker)
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We took a powerful stand for the digital rights of all libraries today in court! 📕 Here’s how to take action while we wait for the judge’s decision:
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Welcome to the public domain, THE CAMERAMAN (1928)
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While STEAMBOAT WILLIE is getting all the attention, did you know that 2 earlier films featuring Mickey Mouse also became public domain on Jan 1? PLANE CRAZY (1928), directed by Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks, features the first appearance of Mickey & Minnie 🧵
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If you are just now discovering this tweet from 2021, welcome! Our library & all libraries could use your help standing up for libraries' digital rights. Learn more ⤵️
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This is why libraries need to be able to own (not just rent) digital media.
Physical media is almost a Fahrenheit 451 (where people memorized entire books and thus became the book they loved) level of responsibility. If you own a great 4K HD, Blu-ray, DVD etc etc of a film or films you love... you are the custodian of those films for generations to…
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Important 🧵 about the lawsuit against our library 👇
Tomorrow,
@InternetArchive
will file their reply brief in the suit from major publishers to end the right of IA and all libraries to own and preserve spyware-free digital books.
Reading what they’re replying to, we’ve gotta ask:
Who is the real "Napster" here?
A thread.
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Steamboat Willie in 4k, digitized from 16mm film:
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Libraries should be able to own & preserve digital media.
#VanishingCulture
"As more movies vanish from streaming services, cinephiles are rallying to physical media. Can they save a seemingly dying format?"
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@_rajkhare
I believe others have tried that but there is nothing more accurate than a well-trained human it turned out.
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Wow! Gift of a lifetime to the open world! Pineapple Fund just gifted $1M in bitcoin to
@internetarchive
. We are blown away -- we’ll strive to preserve our digital world. THANK YOU
#pineapplefund
🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🎉🌟🌍🚀 2018 looking up!
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Thank you all for the overwhelming show of support since Friday's decision was announced ♥️ But the fight is far from over! We’ll let you know asap how to show your support in the next steps of the lawsuit. In the meantime, stand with libraries at
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LAWSUIT UPDATE: Earlier today, we filed our opening appellate brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, reaffirming our commitment to preserving knowledge and defending the digital rights of all libraries. Join the fight:
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Announcing a National Emergency Library
@internetarchive
–1.4 million free books to meet students’ and readers’ needs while schools and libraries are closed at global scale. and browse the collection at
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@cheezkid260
Please spread the word. If the publishers win this lawsuit they are demanding damages of $20M (small change to Rupert Murdock’s publishing empire) but the real demand: that we destroy 1.4 M digitized books.
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This is worth repeating:
"Lesson: if you don’t preserve music with care, you destroy it."
Top: competent mastering of beloved post-punk anthem, early 1990s CD.
Bottom: Awful mastering—too loud, peak limited, low-end cranked, dynamics flattened—of the same beloved post-punk anthem, 2021 deluxe boxed set.
Lesson: if you don’t preserve music with care, you destroy it.
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Stay connected with the Internet Archive 🗣️
Sign up for a free account & opt in to Announcements:
Check out our blog for latest updates:
Mail: info
@archive
.org
Web:
Wayback Machine:
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After months offline, DISCMASTER rises again! 💿 The site, which is not run by the Internet Archive, offers users the ability to perform semantic search of thousands of shareware & compilation CD-ROMs preserved at
@internetarchive
👉
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@apjyotirmay
Still battling the storm. Hachette, Wiley, PenguinRandom House and HarperCollins (owned by Rupert Murdoch) are suing us. One demand: we destroy 1.4 M+ digitized books.
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The lawsuit against our library is about YOUR right to access information privately and without surveillance
#democracy
#privacy
Friend of the Court Briefs Filed in Internet Archive’s Appeal — Hundreds of librarians joined prominent library organizations & non-profits in filing amicus briefs in Hachette v. Internet Archive. Read why they believe our appeal should succeed:
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Did you know you can now search scholarly materials preserved in the
@InternetArchive
? Meet Internet Archive Scholar, a search engine for 25M research articles from 18th C journals to
#OpenAccess
conf. proceedings to
#Preprint
publications.
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Sad news that the Medical Heritage Library (
@MedicalHeritage
) will close on June 30. The collection of more than 350,000 digitized rare books & historic American medical journals will remain at
@internetarchive
, preserved & available for all to access:
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Many of you have been asking how you can support us during this lawsuit. Subscribe to the
#EmpoweringLibraries
newsletter and we'll keep you up to date
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We submitted a letter to the court today in the ongoing lawsuit against our library. We’re fighting for the rights of libraries to use their print collections in the digital age:
#DigitalRightsForLibraries
#EmpoweringResearch
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ATTENTION K-MART SHOPPERS! 🛒 Back in the 80s & 90s, a former
@Kmart
employee saved a private collection of original in-store background music cassettes from being lost to history. Take a nostalgic stroll through the aisles at
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We digitize 4000 books a day! Our heroic digitization team turn every page by hand to avoid damaging the spine
#digitalbooks
#EmpoweringLibraries
#digitization
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We hear this often—"Why would the Internet Archive preserve & digitize an out-of-print textbook from the 1930s?"
Because you never know when the information within is going to solve a "longtime mystery," like this fascinating story about American physicist Richard Feynman ⤵️
Thanks to the
@internetarchive
scanning a copyrighted but out-of-print textbook back in 2019, a longtime mystery about Feynman's famous maze-running anecdote (from his 1974 "cargo cult science" Caltech commencement speech) was just solved:
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@JUNlPER
You can stand with the
@InternetArchive
here at
@fightfortheftr
's campaign for all libraries:
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The lawsuit against our library affects not just all libraries, but all nonprofits
@Wikipedia
@creativecommons
@gutenberg_org
#nonprofitsector
#nonprofit
Friend of the Court Briefs Filed in Internet Archive’s Appeal — Hundreds of librarians joined prominent library organizations & non-profits in filing amicus briefs in Hachette v. Internet Archive. Read why they believe our appeal should succeed:
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Good news-- is back up.
was just hit by a ddos attack for 20 minutes knocking us offline. Then they stopped.
Sorry for the outage.
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We ❤️ the public domain!
In case you missed the
@internetarchive
's event honoring newly released creative works from 1928, we have the highlights on our website: Also, learn more about the Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain:
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@brewster_kahle
What can you do to help? Tell the publishers we want to buy & OWN (not RENT) ebooks we can preserve & lend for the public good 👉
#SellDontSue
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📣 Calling all creators, designers & typophiles! Inspiration awaits in "The Book of Ornamental Alphabets" (1863) 👇
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The publishers & lobbyists
@AmericanPublish
would have you believe their lawsuit is abt
@internetarchive
hurting poor authors.
But none other than
@ChuckWendig
writes "It’s not authors. It’s the publishers. They’re the ones doing this. Go be mad at them"
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Sorry, and will be back in a few,
but a short term power outage was long enough to make recovery take a little while.
We apologize.
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@KennisTennis
We appreciate that! If the publishers win this lawsuit they demand that the
@InternetArchive
destroy 1.4 million digitized books. Physically, not metaphorically.
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With VHS & DVD, libraries could buy sets, lend to patrons & safeguard copies for cultural posterity. With streaming, the shows just vanish 👻 We don’t want books to suffer the same fate! We want a digital future for libraries where they can own & preserve digital books.
#OwnBooks
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@catullus2b
We image the spines for some rare and special collections like the Women of the Book collection from Johns Hopkins Sheridan libraries
@mselibrary
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@GutCheckPress
Please do. And when the pandemic lifts visit us in SF and watch in person. We give tours (when safe again) every Friday.
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, most of the published works from 1927 will move into the public domain in the US. Celebrate these works at one of our two Public Domain Day celebrations, January 19 & 20:
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Hello, new followers! We’re glad you ❤️ the public domain as much as we do! If this is your first introduction,
@internetarchive
is a non-profit library with a mission of providing “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” Start exploring our collections at . 🧵
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Welcome to the public domain, SPEEDY Harold Lloyd stars in his last silent theatrical release, featuring a cameo by Babe Ruth as himself.
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@AaronCortyCort
Well, in addition to the 2 million books in our lending library, we have 2+ million more in the public domain dating back hundreds of years. Some pretty rare ones. Try searching our collection.
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We filed our appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive yesterday. If we are unsuccessful in our fight, libraries won’t be allowed to own and lend digital books, only license them from big media corporations. Why is that bad for YOU? 🧵
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