 In 2020, the Internet Archive was sued by four of the world's largest publishers: Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House, who claim that our book lending program violates their copyrights. In March 2023, a federal district court judge ruled against the Internet Archive and in favor of four corporate publishers. The Internet Archive will appeal.
In the Web3 world, the Internet Archive is forging aheads as both a contributor of materials to decentralized storage at scale, and as a provider of decentralized storage. We have launched a new initiative to bring government documents and data into open access and store them in decentralized storage nodes.