Sony and other musical labels propagate copyright lawsuit against internet archives

In 2023. year Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and a handful of other music labels filed the lawsuit Against the Internet archives via the Great 78 project that weighed to save and digitize 78 RPM Shallac Records. Now both sides have announced in submitting to have reached a settlement and to submit to reject the lawsuit within 45 days. Prosecutors said they were in the submission that they were “written (ing) to advise this court that they had solved.” They did not detect details of their agreement and is very likely not to be public. In a A post on blog The Internet archive, said that they “achieved a confidential resolution of all demands and will have no further public comment on this issue.”

Toward Ars TechnicaThe Internet Archive, his founder Brevster Kale and the George Blood project engineer were the last who agreed on the settlement. The original lawsuit of the label focused on 2,749 artists shots like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. Some of the iconic tracks available to a large 78 project include classics, such as White Christmas, sing, sing, sing and Christmas song.

The labels claimed in their litigation that the tracks “face without danger to be lost, forgotten or destroyed” because they are already available through various musical services. Then they altered their lawsuit and added more recordings in the appeal, bringing a total of 4,142. If they were not settled and the court was hoped for stickers, the internet archive could pay up to $ 150,000 per recording.

Earlier internet archive He lost the lawsuit They filed four American publishers led by the group of Hachetta books through their national project for the urgent library, which launched during the pandemic. The project gave 1.4 million ezils, including copyrighted works, available to the public after locking the door libraries worldwide. He tried to appeal his loss, but a court Sided with publishers Again, he found that his urgent library could not act under the Fair of the doctrine of use.