Internet Archive is already losing to the book publishing assholes, so they’re probably going to lose this one, sadly.
“Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday”
They’re all dead. Mind as well name the executive assholes who’re still profiting off of their names by making compilation sets and all that shit. It’d be more accurate. They’re never going to see money again so what gives?
The lawsuit said the recordings are all available on authorized streaming services and “face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed.”
Where the artists aren’t paid as well, most profits go to, not surprisingly, asshats in suits. Spotify has had a history of taking down songs and albums and artists. So that claim about how they’ll never face danger is bullshit.
While we’re at it, there was a report recently about 87% of commercially released games are lost because of the poor preservation efforts by actual video game companies. Book publishing companies are no different. Show and Movie productions are no different. The music industry is no different, they all have a fair bit of lost media because they suck as preservation while pirates have proven to be efficient at it.
This is going to set a bad chain reaction down the road. Soon, Microsoft is going to be like “HAY! GET RID OF ALL OF THOSE OLD OPERATING SYSTEMS OF OURS!” and sue the internet archive. Then, video game companies will be like “HAY! GET RID OF ALL OF THOSE ISOS AND ROMS OF OUR GAMES!” and sue Internet Archive.
And then Internet Archive will not have the finances to combat all lawsuits before folding up suit. Erasing any attempt that there was in archiving history.