US copyright law is kinda complicated, but as a rule, films generally remain under copyright for a period of 95 years, ...

Over the last century, modern gems like 1917 and ageless classics like Lawrence of Arabia have presented the brutality and ...

This is highlighted in the 2025 annual report from the Active Archive Alliance (AAA), which promotes “active archives” that ...

Public domain content is content that has become freely available to anyone because the protection period for intellectual property rights, such as copyright, has expired or the rights holder has ...

It's the 1970s. A metal cart creaks into a classroom. Students tuck books into desks. The teacher struggles to thread a 16-mm film through sprockets in a projector, and then asks someone to turn off ...

Our film critics watch a lot of movies in a year. By December, their viewing slates span international standouts, festival favorites, studio blockbusters, and plenty more in between. Below, Justin ...

Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the ...

"We're a different kind of archive," Elizabeth Hansen, the archive's managing director, said. "We are actively out in the community looking for archival materials. We encourage both individuals and ...

One of the blessings of Bologna, in northern Italy, is that it knows how to ride a heat wave. The city, which is the capital of the Emilia-Romagna region, is rich in porticoes—elegant arcaded ...

Several major record labels and rights holders have settled their $621 million copyright infringement suit against the Internet Archive over its efforts to digitize, preserve, and share 78 rpm records ...

Sept 15 (Reuters) - (This September 15 story has been corrected to clarify that 78-rpm records are not vinyl, in the headline and paragraph 1.) Sign up here. The labels and the Internet Archive said ...

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other ...