Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) 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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Record labels are such greedy fuckers, they sue an non-profit org used as an archive… fuck all of them.
Don’t underestimate the other guys greed.
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It only shows how ridiculous the copyright laws are. Songs recorded in the 1940s and 50s should’ve long been public domain by now.
Blame Disney
Oh I do for sure.
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The music industry is run by piranhas.
The labels said their damages in the case could be as high as $412 million.
Yeah, I’m sure. They also said:
The lawsuit said the recordings are all available on authorized streaming services and “face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed.”
How are you gonna make $4m on those recordings if everyone streams them from Spotify etc? Talking out of both sides of the mouth. Fuck these people.
Pretty sure them only existing on authorized streaming services means they’re in direct danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed. Copyright holders generally are against preservation. They love it when their products are scarce.
There really needs to be a rule that if you don’t make your IP available to the public, it becomes public domain after a year.
That is actually a law in many countries.
rules for rights for music should be same like rules for latents. If you pay then your rights are protected, if not then no protection. And the max is only 25 years. It’s stupid, and only for profits for mafia like sony, that the rights are even 70 yeras after dead of artist.
I am actually surprised Internet Archive has not had copyright problems in the past because I have ocasionally downloaded videos that are 1:1 contents from now dead/unseeded torrents.
