Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says

[gvopedz]

On Thursday, music labels sought to add nearly 500 more sound recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive (IA) of mass copyright infringement through its Great 78 Project, which seeks to digitize all 3 million three-minute recordings published on 78 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) records from about 1898 to the 1950s...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says/

 

[Ken Dryden]

I have never understood people who upload current recordings readily available, I would be afraid that the labels, publishers and artists might try to include the uploaders in the lawsuit.

I can't believe that Internet Archive is putting a serious dent in anyone's income by uploading used 78 rpm records, especially ones that have never been made available on any other music format. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds.

Where else can you get to hear Spike Jones' original version RCA Victor 78 rpm record of "Ghost Riders in the Sky," which has an brief, mild insult hurled at Vaughan Monroe at the end. Unfortunately, Monroe was a major RCA Victor stockholder and got his panties in a wad, so it was withdrawn, edited and reissued without it.