Brewster KahleAug 13, 2023

Now the Washington lawyers want to destroy digital collections of scratchy 78rpm records, 70-120 year old, built by dedicated preservationists online since 2006.

Who benefits?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/music-labels-sue-internet-archive-over-digitized-record-collection-2023-08-12/

Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection

Universal Music Group <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/UMG.AS" target="_blank">(UMG.AS)</a>, Sony Music Entertainment <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/6758.T" target="_blank">(6758.T)</a> and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.

Reuters
Show threadJohn Levine✅Aug 13, 2023
@brewsterkahle Some of the songs in the complaint are considerably less than 70 years old. This isn't going to go any better than CDL did.
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

To anyone as ignorant as I:

"CDL" is "controlled digital lending" and this is how that lawsuit has gone so far (as of October last year):

blog.archive.org/2022/10/17/th…

The publishers seem to be arguing that all digital lending is a potential threat to their business and libraries have no right to do it. That's as expected. It seems the lawsuit has not reached a summary judgement, reached a settlement, nor gone to court yet?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controll…

@spamvictim @brewsterkahle

The CDL Lawsuit and the Future of Libraries | Internet Archive Blogs

Aug 13, 2023 at 3:36amWeb
Show threadJohn Levine✅Aug 13, 2023
@clacke @brewsterkahle The court ruled in favor of the publishers and against the Archive in March.I see that just yesterday there's a proposed settlement, which makes CDL go away unless the decision is overturned on appeal, which I don't think is likely.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/publishers-internet-archive-agree-streamline-digital-book-lending-case-2023-08-11/
Publishers, Internet Archive agree to streamline digital book-lending case

The Internet Archive and a group of leading book publishers told a Manhattan federal court on Friday that they have resolved aspects of their legal battle over the Archive's digital lending of their scanned books.

Reuters
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Aug 13, 2023

@spamvictim Thank you. I hate it.

@brewsterkahle

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Aug 13, 2023

Latest blog post on the topic from @brewsterkahle and the @internetarchive

blog.archive.org/2023/08/11/ou…

/via mastodon.archive.org/@internet…

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Show threadBob JonkmanAug 13, 2023

@clacke

Also an article from @torrentfreak where I learned about the latest developments:
https://torrentfreak.com/internet-archives-copyright-battle-with-publishers-leads-to-lending-restrictions-230813/

@brewsterkahle @spamvictim

Internet Archive’s Copyright Battle with Publishers Leads to Lending Restrictions

Following a setback in court, the Internet Archive's online book lending library will be severely limited to avoid copyright liability.

TF Publishing
Show threadLisPiAug 13, 2023
@clacke @brewsterkahle @spamvictim > digital lending is a potential threat to their business
"That's quite unfortunate but I don't see how your choice of a failed business model is society's problem."