Brewster Kahle

Brewster Kahle (last name pronounced "kale", like the vegetable) was an early member of the Thinking Machines team and later went on to found WAIS (sold to AOL) and later Alexa Internet (sold to Amazon.com). He also founded and continues to run (as of 2005) the Internet Archive. His goal is "Universal Access to all Knowledge".

As of March 2005 Kahle is a plaintiff, along with film archivist and fellow Internet Archive contributor Rick Prelinger, in Kahle v. Ashcroft. The plaintiffs in that case assert that the striking of the renewal requirement on copyrighted works (in the Berne Convention Implementation Act and Copyright Term Extension Act) stands in violation of the First Amendment by preventing orphaned works from entering the public domain.

External links

• O'Reilly Network: How the Wayback Machine Works – 21 January 2002
• O'Reilly Network: Brewster Kahle on the Internet Archive and People's Technology – Interview by Lisa Rein. 22 January 2004
• ACM Queue: A Conversation with Brewster Kahle – June 2004
• CSPAN – Digital Futures – Universal Access to All Knowledge – Video program of Brewster Kahle. 13 December 2004
• IT Conversations – Universal Access to All Knowledge – Audio program featuring Brewster Kahle. 16 December 2004
• Slate – The Archivist: Brewster Kahle made a copy of the Internet. Now, he wants your files. – 07 April 2005