Officials at the nonprofit have decided against exercising their last option, an appeal to the Supreme Court, ending the closely-watched case over the scanning and lending of library books.

The Internet Archive stopped defending its free digital library against a publisher-launched copyright suit and announced that it won’t ask the high court to review whether the depository is a ...

Conservative groups challenged the program, contending that Congress exceeded its powers in enacting legislation that ...

Internet Archive Seeks Reversal in Book Scanning Suit: In a highly anticipated appeal brief, officials at the Internet Archive argued that district court judge John G. Koeltl misunderstood the ...

A final appeal could potentially be taken to the Supreme Court. In a statement, the Internet Archive said it was “reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to defend the rights of ...

For the first time, the Supreme Court is considering its opinion on the brief but powerful “26 words that created the internet.” Enacted in 1996, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ...

The Internet Archive lost its case against some of the largest publishers in the world after it decided not to elevate the September judgment to the Supreme Court. This ends the saga of the e-book ...

Now that the court has sided with the publishers in the appeal case, the Internet Archive is determining what direction the fight might go next. “We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue ...

Updated at 12:40 p.m. ET on January 22, 2025. I n the pre-internet era, turning 18 in America conferred a very specific, if furtive, privilege: the right to walk into a store and buy an adult ...

The Internet Archive claimed digitizing the books was covered under a fair use provision of copyright law. As a result of the lawsuit, the Internet Archive claims more than 500,000 titles are no ...

The Internet Archive (IA) went before a three-judge panel Friday to defend its open library's controlled digital lending (CDL) practices after book publishers last year won a lawsuit claiming that ...

Kyle Chayka on Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, Supreme Court cases addressing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a main piece of Internet law.