In 2023, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and a handful of other music record labels File a lawsuit Against the great 78 project in the internet archives, the project attempts to save and digitize 78 rpm shalllac records. Now both sides announce them in the document A settlement They are applying to dismiss the lawsuit within 45 days. The plaintiff said in the document that they were “written[ing] Tell the court that they have settled the matter. Blog Posts Through the Internet Archives, they said they “have reached a confidential solution to all claims and there will be no further public comment on the matter.”
according to ARS Technicafounder of the Internet Archives, Brewster Kale, and George Blood, the project’s recording engineer, were the last to reach a settlement. The original lawsuit for the tag focuses on recordings by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. Some iconic tracks offered by the Great 78 project include classics, such as White Christmas, singing, singing, singing and Christmas song.
The tag argued in the lawsuit that the tracks were “in danger of being lost, forgotten or destroyed” because they were already obtained through various music services. They then revised the lawsuit and added more recordings to the complaints to bring the total to 4,142. If they had not settled and the court supported the tag, this Internet archive could have been ordered to pay up to $150,000 per recording.
Previous Internet Archives Lost litigation Submitted by the U.S. publisher of four U.S. Emergency Library projects led by Hachette Book Group, the library was launched during the pandemic. Under the project, it produced 1.4 million e-books, including copyrighted works, that can be made available to the public after locking down the doors of libraries around the world. It attempts to file a loss, but the court With publishers It is again determined that its emergency library cannot operate under the doctrine of rational use.
