Sony settlement and other music posters are a lawsuit for copyright against the Internet archive

In 2023, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and a handful of other music posters litigate Against the internet archive on the wonderful 78 project, which sought to keep the lacque records 78 rpm. Now, both parties announced their file I reached a settlement And they are asking to reject the lawsuit within 45 days. The deposit prosecutors said that they were “Ang) to advise this court that they had settled this issue.” They did not reveal the details of their agreement, and it is very likely that they will not be announced. in Blog post Through the Internet archive, he said they “have reached a secret solution to all claims and they will not have any other general comment on this.”

according to Art TechnicaInternet archive, its founder, Bruceter Keel and the project’s registration engineer, George Badd, was the last to agree on the settlement. The original lawsuit of the brands focused on 2749 artists such as Frank Sinatra, Elie Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, Miles Davis and Luis Armstrong. Some iconic tracks that were provided by the Great 78 project included classics, such as White Christmas, singing, singing, singing and Christmas song.

He argued the posters in a lawsuit that the tracks “do not face any risk of losing, forgetting or destroying them” because they are already available through various music services. Then they amended their lawsuit and added more records to the complaint, thus reaching a total of 4,142. If they have never stabilized, the court stood alongside stickers, it is possible to ask the Internet archive to pay up to $ 150,000 per registration.

Former internet archive I lost a lawsuit It was presented by four American publishers, led by the Hachette Book group on the National Emergency Library project, which it launched during the epidemic. Under the project, it made 1.4 million electronic books, including copyright -protected works, available to the public after Lockdowns closed library doors around the world. I tried to resume its loss, but the court Aside Once again and decided that its emergency library could not work according to the doctrine of just use.