Record label suit: petition to save internet collection

A dramatic appeal expects to secure the existence of non -profit internet archives. The signators of a petition open for further signature require the association of the American music industry RIAA and include Labels like Universal Music Group (UMG), Capital Records, Sony Music and Arista to give up their complaint against the online library. The legal dispute, which is pending since 2023 and has been expanded in March, is about the “Great 78” project. The project would like to save 500,000 song recording by digitizing 250,000 records from 1880 to 1960. Various features and collectors donated records that have been made for 78 revolutions per minute (“shelac”) to put the Internet archives culturally online.

Music companies originally demanded $ 372 million due to online publication of songs and “large -scale”. You have recently increased your demand for potential copyright violations by $ 700 million. The basis of the trial is the Music Modernization Act, which was approved by US President Donald Trump in 2018. It also includes the Classics Act. This law later introduces the federal law copyright protection for sound recording made before 1972, previously protected by various rules of individual American states in the United States. Now monopoly rights are applied to a good 100 years (for recording from 1946) or from 2067 (for recording from 1947 to 1972) in the US.

Important infrastructure of internet is at stake

Judicial approach changes According to a petition currently supported by around 56,000 people Not just against music. Rather, the question of “our digital history is absolutely alive” is focused on the question. Controversial delicate recording “is part of a missing American culture. They hold early jazz, blues, gospel and folk – voices and voice that may otherwise lose otherwise forever.” The great 78 project “to preserve this heritage and make it accessible to research”.

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Process means Universal Music Group at Eut El V Internet Archive. The lawsuit was originally brought by the US Federal Court of New York (AZ. 1: 23-CV-07133), the process in the federal district court is now pending for Northern California (AZ. 3: 23-CV-6522). Internet Archive talks that the Great 78 project does not harm the music industry, contrast: If you want to enjoy music, use commercial streaming services anyway; The old recording of 78-Shelax is the study material for researchers.

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