Internet Archive And Record Labels Settle $621 Million Lawsuit Over Old 78 RPM Records

The case, with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment as lead plaintiffs, targeted the Archive’s Great 78 Project, an initiative to digitize, and make available for free online, more than 400,000 fragile shellac recordings made before the arrival of vinyl records in 1948. The labels sought damages for copyright infringement. – Rolling Stone (MSN)

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