{"id":182784,"date":"2026-01-29T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/publishers-are-blocking-the-internet-archive-for-fear-ai-scrapers-can-use-it-as-a-workaround\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:00:12","slug":"publishers-are-blocking-the-internet-archive-for-fear-ai-scrapers-can-use-it-as-a-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/publishers-are-blocking-the-internet-archive-for-fear-ai-scrapers-can-use-it-as-a-workaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/publishers-are-blocking-the-internet-archive-for-fear-ai-scrapers-can-use-it-as-a-workaround-204001754.html\">Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/publishers-are-blocking-the-internet-archive-for-fear-ai-scrapers-can-use-it-as-a-workaround-204001754.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/publishers-are-blocking-the-internet-archive-for-fear-ai-scrapers-can-use-it-as-a-workaround-204001754.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-29 15:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the article with 6 key points using an unordered list:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Internet Archive has been an invaluable resource for journalists, providing records of deleted tweets and academic texts for background research.<br \/>\n&#8211; Major publications, such as The Guardian, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and Reddit, have begun blocking the Internet Archive\u2019s access to their content.<br \/>\n&#8211; They express concern that AI companies might use the Internet Archive\u2019s collections to indirectly scrape their articles.<br \/>\n&#8211; The tension highlights a broader issue where many publishers are suing AI businesses for unauthorized use of content to train large language models.<br \/>\n&#8211; Notable lawsuits include The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft, the Center for Investigative Reporting against the same companies, and The Wall Street Journal against Perplexity.<br \/>\n&#8211; The dispute also reflects a larger conflict in copyright and piracy issues involving various creative fields with the advent of AI tools.<\/p>\n<p>For a comprehensive overview, the full Nieman Lab story is recommended reading.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/wAuFJaShiOfBQGvuhKX0bA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD03NTA-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/2026-01\/ec934035-d5bd-43f1-9f1d-5593602c528a","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182786,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182784\/revisions\/182786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}