8 month 11 day, The Internet Archive is being sued for copyright infringement by a coalition of music giants, And before that, It lost a similar copyright lawsuit to a group of book giants.

Universal Music (UMG Recordings) , Capitol Records (Capitol Records) , SONY Music (Sony Music) And Arista Records (Arista Music) Et al. filed the latest lawsuit against the nonprofit Internet Archive in federal District Court in New York City.

The lawsuit claims that the Internet Archive, Founder Brewster．Kahler (Brewster Kahle) , Kahler／Austin Foundation, Audio archivist George．Bullard (George Blood) And that an archive service operated under Brad's name violated the Copyrights of various music companies, Because the defendant spread it from the old 78RPM RPM vinyl records transcribed in online audio files.

Kahler, director and co-founder of the Internet Archive 2017 In a speech on the project last year: "The real idea of the project is preservation, Research and discovery. "

Music companies don't think so.

pleadings: "The defendant attempted to 'Preservation and research' Under the guise of, Defending their massive theft of generations of music, But that's just a smokescreen. Their activities go far beyond these limited purposes. The Internet Archive unabashedly seeks to provide free and unlimited access to music for everyone, Without regard for copyright. "

Internet Archive "Great 78 item" have 40 Over a million records. The list of exhibits attached to the complaint lists those controlled by the plaintiff's company 2749 A song, That includes Frank．Sinatra (Frank Sinatra) , Thelonius．Munch (Thelonious Monk) , Hera．Fitzgerald (Ella Fitzgerald) , Billie．Holiday (Billie Holiday) , Miles．Davis (Miles Davis) And Louis．Armstrong (Louis Armstrong) Such artists' songs.

Kahler said on Twitter: "now, Washington state lawyers want to destroy 2006 It was set up on the Internet by dedicated conservators 78RPM RPM's digital collection of records, These records are already available 70 to 120 History of the year. "

Universal did not respond to a request for comment. (Be compiled from www. theregister. com)

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