2023-08-13 17:58:51
By Chloe Woitier
Posted 1 minute ago, Updated 1 minute ago
This complaint comes three months after four major publishing groups won in the first instance against another Internet Archive initiative. BrAt82 – stock.adobe.com
The complaint cites 2749 recordings as an example and considers the argument of safeguarding the musical heritage to be fallacious.
Collect records from the beginning of the 20th century from individuals to archive them, digitize them and make them available free of charge to Internet users and researchers. Six years after its creation and 400,000 songs put online later, the site The Great 78 Project, named after these 78 rpm records which were supplanted after the war by 33 and 45 rpm vinyl, arouses the ire of the music industry. Its initiator, the non-profit organization Internet Archive, was sued on Friday by five record labels, including the powerful groups Universal Music and Sony.
For the majors, The Great 78 Project is nothing but a “large-scale theft” music still protected by copyright and composed “by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century”. The complaint cites as an example 2749 recordings, sung by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis or Billie Holiday, and considers the argument of the safeguarding of musical heritage to be fallacious. “These recordings are not at risk of being lost, forgotten or destroyed” and some are “already available for streaming or download on many legal services”on which the rights holders receive remuneration.
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This complaint comes three months after four major publishing groups won in the first instance against another Internet Archive initiative, Open Library, which allows Internet users to borrow digitized books for free.
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