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Internet Archive is a non-profit library offering millions of free books, movies & audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the Wayback Machine.

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📣 Creators: Celebrate the public domain with our Remix Contest! 🎞️📚🎶 Use the materials that have entered the public domain—like Buster Keaton's The Cameraman—to create a short film for a shot at $1,500 USD and ultimate bragging rights! Details: https://blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/public-domain-day-2024-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/

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@ThankGodItsFriday Please do promote - thanks!

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Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain. 🥳 So what does that mean for our shared culture? Free-range archivist Jason Scott takes readers on an enlightening tour of copyright, the creative ecosystem & film preservation in a thoughtful new post: https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/05/mickeys-bad-day-or-the-ecosystem/

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Everyone's talking about the mouse, but dozens of classic films moved into the public domain this year:
🎬 The Cameraman (Buster Keaton)
🎞️ Easy Virtue (Alfred Hitchcock)
🌆 The Lights of New York (Bryan Foy)
⚔️The Passion of Joan Of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer) ⬇️
Explore the newly unlocked works of art in our curated list: https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/04/the-worlds-most-famous-mouse-joins-the-public-domain/

Silent film, "The Passion of Joan of Arc"

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Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie

Steamboat Willie

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Why is the public domain important, and why is this year so newsworthy? Find out in this excellent segment from CBS News, featuring copyright scholars Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law & Jennifer Jenkins from Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/disney-loses-famous-mickey-mouse-copyright-in-2024-along-with-many-others/

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Friend of the Court Briefs Filed in Internet Archive’s Appeal

From Lila Bailey, IA's senior policy counsel: "Last week saw a massive outpouring of support for the Internet Archive and our legal positions from prominent library and nonprofit organizations, as well as hundreds of librarians and academics, who filed amicus (“friend of the court”) briefs in the Hachette v. Internet Archive Second Circuit appeal. Read on to learn why they believe our appeal should succeed."
https://blog.archive.org/2023/12/29/friend-of-the-court-briefs-filed-in-internet-archives-appeal/

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📽️ Lights, camera, remix! Let your imagination run wild with our Public Domain Day Remix Contest. Create short films featuring materials moving into the public domain in 2024 for a chance to win up to $1,500!

Deadline: January 17, 2024
Details: https://blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/public-domain-day-2024-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/

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Donations to the Internet Archive, home of the wayback machine, are matched until 31st December

https://archive.org/donate

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@dreiwert @tomstafford Sorry to hear you’re having problems with our donations page. Our donations team can give you personal assistance with a message to donations@archive.org.

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Our popular book talk series with Authors Alliance drew record crowds this year! More than 2,000 attendees came to an in-person or virtual talk by authors including Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) , Peter Baldwin, Abby Smith Rumsey, Jason Steinhauer, Laine Nooney, Jessica Silbey & more! Browse & watch: https://blog.archive.org/2023/12/26/book-talks-draw-more-than-2000-attendees-in-2023/

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With SIX days left in 2023, we want to use this week to share SIX reasons to contribute to the Internet Archive.

6️⃣: The Team - Meet the incredible team behind the scenes at Internet Archive, headquartered in the heart of San Francisco, CA, with satellites spanning the globe! 🚀🌍

We’re on a mission to build a digital library for all—where everyone can dive into the vast tapestry of our shared human experience from books to web pages, audio to television, & software. 📚🎶📺 https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2023

Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian (00:01): Hi, I'm Brewster Kale, digital librarian and founder of the Internet Archive. There's only one week left before December 31st, and if you donate today, your donation is matched one-to-one, so it doubles the impact. We really appreciate your support. Thank you. Alexis Rossi, collections (00:17): Hi, my name is Alexis Rossi. I run the collections team here at the Internet Archive. Thank you so much for all of your donations. They really help us keep the archive in tip top condition. My team does lots of stuff, but one of the things that we do is sort through all of the things that get added into the Internet Archive. For example, we removed 250,000 spam items that you don't have to look at, which I bet you appreciate. And we also went through about 13 million user uploads this year in order to put them into collections and make them easier for all of our patrons to find. Thank you so much for helping us bring this work to the world. Andy Bezella, sys admin (00:58): I'm Andy Bezella. I'm a sys admin with the Internet Archive, and your donations have made it possible for us to continue to grow our storage to deal with the continued incoming fluxx of data that is always arriving on the shores of the Internet Archive. Lila Bailey, policy counsel (01:12): Hi, I'm Lila Bailey. I'm the Internet Archive's Senior Policy Council, and I just wanted to say thank you so much for helping us to defray the costs that

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5️⃣: Our Collections - Our collections contain millions of books, movies, software, audio, and images. They are at the core of all the work we do, including exceptional research, journalism, and incredible projects. All of this is a result of your curiosity: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2023

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4️⃣: Our servers! Did you know that the Internet Archive houses over 99+ unique petabytes (equivalent to the contents of 265 million filing cabinets) that include public texts, movies, audio, images, and more?

To sustain the growth of this collection over time we build and maintain all our own systems, rather than contracting them out to corporations. We need reliable infrastructure, which is why we rely on the support of our users. https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2023

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3️⃣: The Wayback Machine!

An invaluable resource for academics, researchers, reporters, activists, students and curious citizens worldwide—the Wayback Machine has allowed us to do some incredible things, like archiving the Ukrainian Internet, fighting misinformation through factual records and teaming up with the Library of Congress, U.S. Government Publishing Office, and others to do a deep and wide web-crawl of all U.S. government websites: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2023

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2️⃣: Empowering Research - As a research library in the 21st century, we're committed to empowering all researchers by embracing the digital era. From AI enthusiasts to scholars in biology, chemistry, economics, and humanities. The Internet Archive's vast petabytes of data cater to a wide range of researchers, as the digital age has made it possible for wider access to our resources: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2023

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1️⃣: Preservation - It is up to us to preserve humanity’s knowledge. This is why the Internet Archive has worked for the past 25 years to protect and archive valuable cultural products online and offline. Thanks to the generosity of our patrons, we’ve grown from a small preservation project into a vast library that serves millions of people each year: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2023

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Sierra Christmas Card 1986: A Computer Christmas https://archive.org/details/sierra-christmas-card-1986

The festive holiday scene is an 8-bit Christmas greeting card showing a Christmas tree in the left foreground with twinkling lights, a fireplace with a roaring fire and stockings hung from the mantle. Atop sits a clock with a swinging pendulum and two flickering candles.

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Celebrate this Christmas Eve with a touch of nostalgia 🎄 🎶 Listen to the preserved & digitized 78rpm recording "CHRISTMAS EVE AT GRANDMA'S" (1923) https://archive.org/details/78_christmas-eve-at-grandmas_holy-trinity-male-quartette_gbia0240989a

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"So, then, why is Penguin Random House trying to kill the Internet Archive?"

Mike Masnick @mmasnick points out the publishing giant's inconsistencies in believing in the importance of "equitable access to books" while suing a library, in Techdirt. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/18/internet-archive-files-opening-brief-in-its-appeal-of-book-publishers-win/

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I bought a used Canon AE-1 SLR from eBay to try film photography. Just got them developed. This is the first photo I took as soon as I finished loading the film while reading the camera manual pdf which I got from @internetarchive

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@epilys glad we could help!

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Our collections provide more than just research & fact-checking—they connect us to our heritage through preserved history & cultural artifacts. Read how one @internetarchive staff member was able to connect with her family roots through recipes: https://blog.archive.org/2023/12/18/unearthing-sweet-memories-with-timeless-recipes/

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You’ve probably heard that Mickey Mouse is moving into the public domain in 2024. What does that mean for reusing & remixing this iconic character in new works of art? Well, as Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain explains, it’s…complicated: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/

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Interested in the works of art & culture that will enter the public domain in 2024? 🎶🎞️📚 Check out the newly published list from Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/

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Please donate to @internetarchive to stand by your library.

100Petabytes and growing-- building a record of our time for us all to enjoy.

https://archive.org/donate

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@HeatherErin @brewsterkahle Great to hear, Heather!We’d love to learn more about how you use our library. Are you up for a conversation with our Director of Library Services, Chris Freeland @chrisfreeland?

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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: https://blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/internet-archive-defends-digital-rights-for-libraries/

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