Internet Archive
American nonprofit digital archive
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| 2024 | Swilk begins the Internet Archive visual arts residency, part of a program designed to connect artists with the Archive's collections and explore open access to information through artistic practice. |
| December 2024 | The Internet Archive announced it would not challenge the court's ruling further, effectively ending the legal dispute. |
| October 2024 | Internet Archive strikes a deal with Leiden University Library to accept and digitize 400,000 uncatalogued foreign dissertations, including works by notable scientists and scholars like Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and others. |
| October 25 2024 | Login feature restored, and Internet Archive services fully resumed after cybersecurity incident. |
| October 14 2024 | Brewster Kahle reported Wayback Machine volume returned to normal at 1,500 requests per second. |
| October 13 2024 | Wayback Machine restored in read-only format, with web page archiving temporarily disabled. |
| October 9 2024 | Experienced a significant cybersecurity incident including DDoS attacks, site defacement, and a data breach affecting approximately 31 million user accounts. |
| October 9 2024 | Major cybersecurity incident with DDoS attacks, site defacement, and a data breach affecting approximately 31 million user accounts. SN_BLACKMETA claimed responsibility. |
| September 2024 | Google and Internet Archive signed a partnership to allow people to see previous website versions on Google Search using the Wayback Machine. |
| September 4 2024 | The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court rulings against the Internet Archive, upholding the original judgment in the copyright case. |
| June 28 2024 | Oral arguments for the appeal took place before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. |
| May 27 2024 | Internet Archive suffered a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, making services unavailable intermittently. Hacker group SN_BLACKMETA claimed responsibility. |
| December 15 2023 | Internet Archive filed its opening brief in the appeal of the lawsuit. |
| October 2023 | Internet Archive uploads one petabyte of data to the Filecoin network. |
| September 11 2023 | Internet Archive filed a notice of appeal for the ruling in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. |
| August 2023 | Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Concord sue Internet Archive over its Great 78 Project, alleging copyright infringement of pre-1972 music recordings. |
| August 11 2023 | A negotiated judgment barred the Internet Archive from digitally lending books with available electronic copies. Additionally, music industry giants sued the Archive over the Great 78 Project for $621 million in damages. |
| August 11 2023 | The parties reach a negotiated judgment, resulting in a permanent injunction preventing Internet Archive from loaning the plaintiffs' books through Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), with over 500,000 books made unavailable. The Internet Archive preserves its right to appeal the previous ruling. |
| July 28 2023 | Judge Koeltl grants a final extension for the parties to brief the court on case resolution, explicitly stating 'No further extensions'. |
| March 25 2023 | The court ruled in favor of the publishers in the copyright infringement lawsuit. |
| March 25 2023 | Court ruled in favor of publishers in the digital lending lawsuit. |
| March 25 2023 | The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled on the Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive case, finding the Internet Archive committed copyright infringement through its digital lending practices. |
| March 24 2023 | Judge John G. Koeltl issues a summary judgment in favor of the publishers, ruling that the Internet Archive's scanning and lending of complete book copies constitutes copyright infringement and fails the fair use test. |
| March 20 2023 | First hearing held, with Judge Koeltl appearing unconvinced by the Internet Archive's fair use claims and concerned about the potential impact on publishers' e-book market. |
| January 23 2023 | Internet Archive removes the first episode of 'India: The Modi Question' documentary after reportedly receiving a BBC request under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. |
| June 2022 | Both parties in the lawsuit requested summary judgment, which Judge John G. Koeltl approved for a hearing later in 2022. |
| January 2022 | A former UCLA lecturer's 800-page manifesto containing racist ideas was uploaded to the Internet Archive and subsequently removed after a week. |
| 2021 | Casey Gray completes the Internet Archive visual arts residency, developing work utilizing the Archive's extensive collections. |
| 2021 | The Internet Archive announced the initial version of the General Index, a comprehensive public index containing 107 million academic journal articles, expanding access to scholarly research. |
| September 30 2021 | Internet Archive launched the 'Wayforward Machine', a satirical website for its 25th anniversary celebration. The site depicted a fictional dystopian future with speculative events like the repeal of Section 230 in 2022 and the introduction of advertising implants in 2041. |
| July 14 2021 | The Internet Archive held a joint 'Referral Action Day' with Europol to target terrorist videos. |
| 2020 | Received the entire library collection of Marygrove College after it closed. |
| 2020 | Internet Archive starts storing content on the Filecoin network. |
| 2020 | The Internet Archive launched the Empowering Libraries campaign (#EmpoweringLibraries) in response to the publishers' lawsuit, portraying the legal action as a threat to libraries. |
| December 2020 | Lillian Michelson's film research library was donated to the Internet Archive, expanding its media collections. |
| December 31 2020 | End-of-life for Adobe Flash plugin across all computer systems. |
| November 2020 | Internet Archive introduced Ruffle, a new emulator for Adobe Flash, and began archiving Flash animations and games before the end-of-life for the Flash plugin. |
| September 2020 | Internet Archive launched Internet Archive Scholar, a new initiative to archive and preserve open access academic journals, creating a full-text search index with over 25 million research articles and scholarly documents spanning from 18th-century journals to contemporary open access materials. |
| June 16 2020 | The Internet Archive closed the National Emergency Library after 12 weeks of operation and reverted to its original controlled digital lending (CDL) system. |
| June 1 2020 | Four book publishers filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive in response to the National Emergency Library's unrestricted digital lending practices. |
| March 24 2020 | Following COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns, the Internet Archive launched the National Emergency Library (NEL), removing book waitlists and allowing multiple simultaneous digital borrowings of the same book. |
| 2019 | The Internet Archive visual arts residency featured Caleb Duarte, Whitney Lynn, and Jeffrey Alan Scudder as their chosen artists, continuing their annual program of connecting artists with the Archive's collections. |
| 2019 | The Internet Archive launched the first Decentralized Web Camp (DWeb Camp), an annual gathering bringing together a global community to collaborate on decentralized web technologies, fostering principles of trust, human agency, mutual respect, and ecological awareness. |
| December 2019 | Internet Archive launches a funding campaign with a goal of reaching $6 million in donations. |
| April 2019 | Europol, referred by French police, requested the Internet Archive to remove 550 sites of 'terrorist propaganda', which the Archive rejected. |
| 2018 | Received a donation of 250,000 books from Trent University. |
| 2018 | The Internet Archive visual arts residency selected Mieke Marple, Chris Sollars, and Taravat Talepasand as their artist in residence for the year. |
| 2018 | Launched the Internet Archive visual arts residency to connect artists with the Archive's digital materials. |
| May 2018 | A Flashpoint cyber-security report revealed that the Islamic State was using the Internet Archive to share propaganda. |
| February 2018 | The Counter Extremism Project reported that the Internet Archive hosted terrorist videos, including the beheading of Alan Henning. |
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