{"id":1237923,"date":"2025-03-07T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237923"},"modified":"2025-03-07T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T20:03:15","slug":"music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237923","title":{"rendered":"Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If labels&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/UMG-v-Internet-Archive-Proposed-Seconded-Amended-Complaint-3-6-25.pdf\">proposed second amended complaint<\/a> is accepted by the court, damages sought in the case\u2014which some already feared could financially ruin IA and shut it down for good\u2014could increase to almost $700 million. (Initially, labels <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2023\/08\/record-labels-sue-internet-archive-for-digitizing-obsolete-vintage-records\/\">sought about $400 million in damages<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IA did not respond to Ars&#8217; request for comment, but the filing noted that IA has not consented to music labels&#8217; motion to amend their complaint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237923\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}