Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection By Reuters

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<p>By Blake Brittain</p>
<p>(Reuters) – Universal Music Group (AS:), <span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Corporation"><span itemprop="name"> Sony </span></span> (NYSE:) Music Entertainment and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.</p>
<p>The labels’ lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan said the Archive’s “Great 78 Project” functions as an “illegal record store” for songs by musicians including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday.</p>
<p>They named 2,749 sound-recording copyrights that the Archive allegedly infringed. The labels said their damages in the case could be as high as $412 million.</p>
<p>Representatives for the Internet Archive did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint.</p>
<p>The San Francisco-based Internet Archive digitally archives websites, books, audio recordings and other materials. It compares itself to a library and says its mission is to “provide universal access to all knowledge.” </p>
<p>The Internet Archive is already facing another federal lawsuit in Manhattan from leading book publishers who said its digital-book lending program launched in the pandemic violates their copyrights. A judge ruled for the publishers in March, in a decision that the Archive plans to appeal.</p>
<p>The Great 78 Project encourages donations of 78-rpm records — the dominant record format from the early 1900s until the 1950s — for the group to digitize to “ensure the survival of these cultural materials for future generations to study and enjoy.” Its website says the collection includes more than 400,000 recordings.</p>
<p>The labels’ lawsuit said the project includes thousands of their copyright-protected recordings, including Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas,” Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven” and Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”.</p>
<p>The lawsuit said the recordings are all available on authorized streaming services and “face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed.” </p>
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