Brewster Kahle

Thinking Machines team and later went on to found WAIS (sold to AOL) and later Alexa Internet (sold to Amazon.com). Also founded and continues to run (as of 2002) the Internet Archive.

As of March 2004 Kahle is a plaintiff, along with film archivist and fellow Internet Archive contributor Rick Prelinger, in Kahle v. Ashcroft. The plaintiffs in that case hold 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 abandoned works from entering the public domain.