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

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.

  • whataboutshutupEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

    If it’s a direct quote from them, it’s gonna have some base, right? Big companies have a bad track record of saving stuff they can’t monetize, while IA is dedicated to this one task. They just said it to counter their mission?