Internet Archive’s legal woes mount as record labels sue for $400M::The Internet Archive also reached a confidential settlement with book publishers.
Worthless leeches. Preservation of media is so important, otherwise so much of our history will be lost to these greedy corporations.
Write your reps folks! I wrote my senators and congressional rep; if enough reps hear about this and realize how important the internet archive is they can help (even having a senator/representative getting in the middle with the threat of changes to the law to protect the internet archive could result in a much more favorable outcome).
None of these corporations want history recorded at all, without a record they can never be painted in a light they don’t fully control
What the Archive did may as well be illegal, but the fact that the record labels did not even bother to send them a Cease & desist letter, instead suing directly for 400$M, tells you everything you need to know about the record industry
These record labels are scum, and their lawyers are scum for attempting this.
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Indeed. You can do so here.
You should not trust that I am not a scammer. You can get there yourself without using my shortcut from the archive.org homepage.
Edited due to my late night incompetence (thanks for the headsup @ominouslemon@lemm.ee).
Yo, those links point to archive.is, which has nothing to do with the Internet Archive (archive.org).
FFS, I’m so sorry. I am easily confused.
Both worth supporting, of course.
NP, to be fair I also had to double check to make sure they weren’t actually affiliated, lol
I already do
Record labels going after this is so classless. Are they going to sue libraries for loaning out cs’s?
I mean they probably would if that didn’t mean suing the government, although they might win in todays climate
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Good bot
70-120 years old? Wouldn’t some of this be public domain now?
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.
Mickey would like a word
It is a sad day
Sad
Honestly, I love me some internet archive but they should probably lose virtually any given case against them.
