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Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection

www.reuters.com Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection

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.

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

Until the owner of streaming service decides to delete it for no reason or warning. These huge corpos can go fuck themselves.
- Or the label itself decides to remove them because of [insert reason here].
- I was recently looking for a song on Spotify that I remembered enjoying, what must’ve been 10 year ago. It had been removed from Spotify (greyed out in a playlist) but I sure as shit found it quickly on YouTube, uploaded by some random person.
- How many times have we seen popular games removed from Steam because of music licensing issues?
  
  Hell, I had a movie I bought a billion years ago on DVD that I ripped to my machine as part of my digitalization effort, the physical media didn’t make it in my second to last move.
  
  I then decided to move everything to h.265 to shrink my capacity needs and this one was eaten by the transcoder. I went to go BUY it again, can’t find it anywhere. Went to stream? Nowhere.
  
  You telling me I’m gonna trust these rat fucks? No chance.
  
  They’re just here to bleed us dry, the medium is only part that’s negotiable to them.
Oh no, did the two huge companies hoarding the rights to the vast majority of popular music in the world while underpaying artists and overcharging everyone else lose some potential revenue?!
- Love the image!
  
  Way to !donthelpjustfilm, some people...
Geezus, leave it to record labels and recording companies to become even bigger assholes than they already were.
if you pay for music you feed a system that starves the artist. dont buy music. ever. but their merch, go to concerts or support them in other ways.
- Unless the artist is on Bandcamp, buy their music there. On bandcamp fridays
- and with concerts most the money goes to ticketmaster
  
  in the US i heard its bad but taylor has enough to be no1 in aor pollution with that privat jet...so it might be still too much
Copyright law to blame here. If the labels don't defend it, then they could be sued themselves. Internet Archive shouldn't be in America though, far too stringent
- That's not how copyright law works. You don't have to defend it or risk being sued.
  
  Copyright law actually has specific exceptions for libraries and hasn't been updated for the modern world, which is the actual problem.
  
  Families of original holders will expect labels to do this
- You're mistaking it with trademarks - those you have to defend or you lose them.
  
  I am not. Survivors from these artists expect the labels to do this
They named 2,749 sound-recording copyrights that the Archive allegedly infringed.

collection includes more than 400,000 recordings.

Has anybody the list with the 2749 recordings in Question?

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