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Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media

by Chris Freeland blog.archive.org published 2023-08-14

Late Friday, some of the world’s largest record labels, including Sony and Universal Music Group, filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive and others for the Great 78 Project, a community effort for the preservation, research and discovery of 78 rpm records that are 70 to 120 years old. As a non-profit library, we…

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