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How Mickey’s 1930 comic strip turned borrowed hit songs into the foundation of Disney’s musical legacy.
On January 13, 1930, Mickey Mouse began starring in daily comic strips. This new endeavor “functioned as many fans’ most readily available source of Mickey Mouse entertainment.”1 Despite being a print medium, these works heavily featured musical motifs...

Internet Archive’s latest Artist in Residence, Cindy Rehm, has created The Seers, a project comprised of one hundred college drawings using images largely sourced from historic books at the Internet Archive. The Seers is inspired by the work of Hélène...

As reported by Nieman Lab last month, some major media organizations—including The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit—have started blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving their sites over unfounded concerns about AI scraping.
Last week, tech writer Mike Masnick (Techdirt) explained why this is “a mistake we’re going to regret for generations.”...

On February 13, World Radio Day acknowledges the importance of radio around the globe. The annual event has been taking place for a little over a decade, dating back to a 2011 proclamation by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...