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 threadBob JonkmanAug 13, 2023

@spamvictim

From my limited understanding, the media companies are claiming that the digitization (copying), archiving (copying again), and lending out (copying x3) of old, out-of-copyright 78s is infringing on the copyright of modern re-releases.

Trying to do an end-run around copyright expiration...

@brewsterkahle

Show threadJohn Levine✅
@bobjonkman @brewsterkahle Nope. The Music Modernization Act of 2018 restored copyight in pre-1972 recordings, with an effective term of 100 years. You can (and should) think this is terrible policy, but like I said, you don't get to ignore the law just because you think it's a bad one.
https://www.copyright.gov/music-modernization/
The Music Modernization Act | U.S. Copyright Office

Orrin G. Hatch—Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act

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Show threadJohn Levine✅Aug 13, 2023
@bobjonkman @brewsterkahle Here's the complaint, which lays out the media companies' position quite clearly, if a bit overexcited. As far as I know, their facts are correct.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.604258/gov.uscourts.nysd.604258.1.0.pdf
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Show threadBob JonkmanAug 13, 2023

@spamvictim

Well, that's worse than I thought. Just when you think it couldn't get any worse, it does (applies to so much nowadays).

Thanx for the links. But the second one, https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/og-lookup/ just gives me a "404 Not Found" error. I suspect Mastodon or my app cut off the URL parameters.

@brewsterkahle

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