Sony Music files copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive
By MYBRANDBOOK
Sony Music Entertainment and five other major music companies sued the non-profit Internet Archive, on grounds that it’s posting of thousands of old songs and recordings online amounts to “wholesale theft” of copyright-protected music. Lawyers for the record companies said in a lawsuit that the Internet Archive’s “blatant infringement includes hundreds of thousands of works by some of the greatest artists of the Twentieth Century.”
Among the artists cited are Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Thelonious Monk.
According to the complaint, the record companies include a list of 2749 recordings in the lawsuit, including Bing Crosby singing” White Christmas,” that “is but a small sample” of recordings the archive posted without permission. They are asking the court to order the archive to remove all copyrighted material and pay damages of as much as $150,000 for each infringed work, which for the listed recordings would amount to $372 million.
The Internet Archive maintains a vast digital collection of text, video and music online. On its Great 78 Project website, it posts digitized copies, which it solicits from users, of records in the antiquated 78 LP format. It boasts on the site of having posted more than 400,000 recordings and that its purpose is “the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records.”
But the record companies say the archive’s altruistic claims are a “smokescreen” to disguise its theft.
The recordings “are already available for streaming or downloading from numerous services” authorized by the record companies, the lawyers for the record companies wrote. “These recordings face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed.”
Sony is joined by UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records LLC, Concord Bicycle Assets LLC, CMGI Recorded Music Assets LLC and Arista Music, in the suit.
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