Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says
On Thursday, music labels sought to add nearly 500 more sound recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive (IA) of mass copyright infringement through its Great 78 Project, which seeks to digitize all 3 million three-minute recordings published on 78 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) records from about 1898 to the 1950s.
If the labels' proposed second amended complaint is accepted by the court, damages sought in the case-which some already feared could financially ruin IA and shut it down for good-could increase to almost $700 million. (Initially, the labels sought about $400 million in damages.)
IA did not respond to Ars' request for comment, but the filing noted that IA has not consented to music labels' motion to amend their complaint.