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it's wednesday september 14th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, several major publishing houses are suing the Internet Archive. Why? And what could the ramifications of the lawsuit have on the archive and on digital access to knowledge more broadly, a deep dive for your ride home.

The Internet Archive. You probably know it for its Wayback Machine, which has preserved over

736 billion web pages from the last quarter of a century. If a page somewhere has been taken down,

for nefarious or neutral reasons, people hit up the way back machine to find it again.

Or maybe you go to archive.org to find images or video clips under the Creative Commons license

to remix in projects you're creating.

Personally, I use the Internet Archives Open Library all the time in my research, especially

for this show.

Their Open Library provides access to digital versions of millions of books for free.

Books that are in the public domain are available to download, and other books can

be borrowed for one hour at a time, so long as no one else has tried to rent it, viewable on

archive.org's website. I use this feature all the time when I want to reference a book that I

don't already own when I'm writing a segment. While for a longer-term project, I might try to get the book from my local library or purchase it,

if it's actually still in print or not priced exorbitantly on some rare books website,

but the open library is perfect for the quick turnaround of this show.

And like e-books that you can rent through your local library, through apps like Libby, the

open library allows one person at a time to be reading the book, just like if they were

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