THE TROVE WAYBACK MACHINE ARCHIVE
Inherently, the acts of digitizing, reproducing, displaying and distributing works raise issues of copyright law, for which the Internet Archive recently found itself in a “boat of hot water.” patents, 180,000 live concerts, 20,000 computer games, and still more, including many old and rare works thought lost forever. Today, the public can access its archive containing over 300 billion web pages, 20 million books, 1.6 million TV news programs, 400,00 U.S. The Internet Archive is a well-known online library, reference tool and non-profit whose mission “is to provide universal access to all knowledge.” It grew from archiving Internet webpages, through its trademarked “Wayback Machine,” and expanded to include digitized paper texts, images, audio, and video. The lawsuit was spurred by the Internet Archive’s pandemic-borne “emergency” plan to remove longstanding restrictions on access to digitally reproduced books, but even a premature end to that program does not appear to have ended the legal dispute, which could test the bounds of “fair use” under Section 107 of the Copyright Act, as well as the definition of and scope of protection afforded to digital libraries and archives under Section 108 of the Act. Salinger, Lemony Snicket and many others.
A group of publishers, made up of Hatchette, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House, have sued the Internet Archive for infringement in its “Open Library”of the copyrights of over 127 books by C.S.
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