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Agata Mrva-Montoya, Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney

Internet Archive's digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications

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“Information wants to be free” – but at what cost?

The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 as a non-profit digital library, aiming to provide “universal access to all knowledge”. It started with a project to preserve the World Wide Web. Its Wayback Machine, developed in 2001, made the automatically archived content available to the public.

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