Sony and other music labels sue Internet Archive for digitizing old records

Yesterday: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37100140">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37100140</a> (&quot;Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit&quot;, &gt;200 comments)

Full list of the plaintiffs, so that they can be appropriately awarded next time one is shopping for music.<p>UMG Recordings, Inc. - Capitol Records, LLC - Concord Bicycle Assets, LLC - CMGI Recorded Music Assets, LLC - Sony Music Entertainment - Arista Music

Copyright law is incompatible with preservation of cultural artefacts.

When reading about everything the Internet Archive does, I feel like it is something that the Library of Congress should be doing.<p>One of the biggest threats to the Internet Archive is legal threats. Having the Library of Congress do that archiving role would get rid of a lot of legal threats.<p>I feel the US in recent years has gone too far in relying on private entities to fulfill services that really should be public services.

This is not the first time time that copyright law has clashed with public interest: Googles &quot;Project Ocean&quot; is a recent example with significant legal proceedings to serve as illustration for how this type of case is likely to proceed. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;the-tragedy-of-google-books&#x2F;523320&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;the-t...</a>

Does anyone know why the Internet Archive seems to be deliberately picking expensive legal fights? Surely they&#x27;re not really worried that <i>White Christmas</i> will be lost to history.

You can stream them here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.locserendipity.com&#x2F;PushPlay.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.locserendipity.com&#x2F;PushPlay.html</a><p>And LPs here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;locserendipity.com&#x2F;LP.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;locserendipity.com&#x2F;LP.html</a><p>These websites do not hold the data itself, but only the links to the IA data (don’t want to get sued), so donate to the Internet Archive if you use these regularly.

It seems the Internet Archive itself may be in need of archiving... in a far more distributed manner.