Nieman Journalism Lab

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism

In January, Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers — including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. — had started blocking the Internet Archive due to concerns that AI ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback ...
The Conversation

News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking. Major ...
The Next Web

News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it

The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive’s crawlers, a decision the Archive’s own director ...
Forbes

Why Major News Sites Are Blocking The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

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