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14 August 2023CopyrightSarah Speight

Sony, Universal et al sue Internet Archive for $412m

Case concerns ‘massive’ infringement of pre-1972 songs by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Peggy Lee | Six record labels allege that Internet Archive is ‘wilfully disobeying’ copyright law by making old 78 rpm records available online for free.

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