Post by End80 on Oct 5, 2024 22:57:54 GMT
Rolling Stone recently published this article about the Internet Archives present and past legal struggles involving music and book copyright issues.
It also talks about the "Great 78 Project“, which I recall reading about years ago, when they set out to digitize every 78rpm disc or cylinder they could get their hands on - well, they're having legal issues with that too.
I encourage you to read it because it does indirectly relate to our hobby. It's a long but easy read and very interesting (I thought), entertaining even.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-major-label-music-lawsuit-1235105273/
Excerpts:
“The whole idea was to build the Library of Alexandria for the digital age. To build universal access to all knowledge.”
“It’s a research library. It’s there to record and make available an accurate version of the past,” Kahle says. “Otherwise, we’ll end up with a George Orwell world where the past can be manipulated and erased.”
To grow the Internet Archive, that meant dancing around and prodding the limits of copyright law. Though to the Archive’s detractors, this often looked like blatant disregard... ..The Copyright Act also gives libraries and archives some leeway to reproduce and distribute protected works, but there are debates over whether the Internet Archive, despite its assertions, is a library or just an online distribution hub. "
It also talks about the "Great 78 Project“, which I recall reading about years ago, when they set out to digitize every 78rpm disc or cylinder they could get their hands on - well, they're having legal issues with that too.
I encourage you to read it because it does indirectly relate to our hobby. It's a long but easy read and very interesting (I thought), entertaining even.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-major-label-music-lawsuit-1235105273/
Excerpts:
“The whole idea was to build the Library of Alexandria for the digital age. To build universal access to all knowledge.”
“It’s a research library. It’s there to record and make available an accurate version of the past,” Kahle says. “Otherwise, we’ll end up with a George Orwell world where the past can be manipulated and erased.”
To grow the Internet Archive, that meant dancing around and prodding the limits of copyright law. Though to the Archive’s detractors, this often looked like blatant disregard... ..The Copyright Act also gives libraries and archives some leeway to reproduce and distribute protected works, but there are debates over whether the Internet Archive, despite its assertions, is a library or just an online distribution hub. "