The Internet Archive also reached a confidential settlement with book publishers.

Internet Archive’s legal woes mount as record labels sue for $400M::The Internet Archive also reached a confidential settlement with book publishers.

  • B_noire@lemm.eeEnglish
    78·
    2 years ago

    Worthless leeches. Preservation of media is so important, otherwise so much of our history will be lost to these greedy corporations.

    • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      None of these corporations want history recorded at all, without a record they can never be painted in a light they don’t fully control

  • ominouslemon@lemm.eeEnglish
    73·
    2 years ago

    What the Archive did may as well be illegal, but the fact that the record labels did not even bother to send them a Cease & desist letter, instead suing directly for 400$M, tells you everything you need to know about the record industry

  • bemenaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    2 years ago

    Record labels going after this is so classless. Are they going to sue libraries for loaning out cs’s?

    • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      I mean they probably would if that didn’t mean suing the government, although they might win in todays climate

    • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 years ago

      One would think, but no.

      According to Wikipedia specifically about music

      recordings published before 1923 expired on January 1, 2022; recordings published between 1923 and 1946 will be protected for 100 years after release; recordings published between 1947 and 1956 will be protected for 110 years; and all recordings published after 1956 that were fixed prior to February 15, 1972, will have their protection terminate on February 15, 2067.