Internet Archive’s big battle with #music publishers ends in settlement
A #settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music #publishers sued the #InternetArchive over the #Great78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac records.
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The conversation between @brewsterkahle and @ftrain tonight about audio in the @internetarchive (i.e., https://tilde.zone/@ftrain/109334575222319445) has had me thinking about some of my own favorite bits there:
* Audio from the #Great78 project (some of the best: https://archive.org/details/georgeblood) but especially early blues recordings (https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?&and[]=subject%3A%22Blues%22)
* #NumbersStations (https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22numbers+stations%22) are a minor obsession going back to a childhood spent listening to my grandma's secret short wave radio.
Tonight’s listening is from the Pacifica archives: A 1958 panel on homosexuality, featuring speakers from the Mattachine Society — which had only 117 members at the time. 117! https://archive.org/details/pra-BB0012 Alan Ginsberg reading Howl, among other things: https://archive.org/details/canhpra_000038 Herbert Marcuse fights for Angela Davis to teach at Berkeley at a rally in 1969: https://archive.org/details/pacifica_radio_archives-AZ1025
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