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Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The labels' lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan said the Archive's "Great 78 Project" functions as an "illegal record store" for songs by musicians including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday.

Representatives for the Internet Archive did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint.

The Internet Archive is already facing another federal lawsuit in Manhattan from leading book publishers who said its digital-book lending program launched in the pandemic violates their copyrights.

A judge ruled for the publishers in March, in a decision that the Archive plans to appeal.

The labels' lawsuit said the project includes thousands of their copyright-protected recordings, including Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven" and Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".

The lawsuit said the recordings are all available on authorized streaming services and "face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed."


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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It only shows how ridiculous the copyright laws are. Songs recorded in the 1940s and 50s should've long been public domain by now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh I do for sure.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago