I mean, the stuff in the Great 78 Project is stuff that is so old that copyright was not designed to support the lengths of time they currently do so archiving wasn’t as big of a concern because the media it was created on would be less likely to deteriorate in that time. When the owner is a corporation who for the most part not only doesn’t sell but refuses to archive works that are breaking down due to the physical age of the media and would rather the works disappear than allow for archiving, how are they harmed to the tune of $150,000 per recording? And who is this benefiting to let recordings, stories, and other art forms literally turn to dust with no monetary profit going to anyone in most cases if it’s not archived.
This has nothing to do with right or wrong. It is totally a matter of them breaking the law. If they wanted to protect the Wayback machine they shouldn’t of played with fire. They could’ve applied for a copyright exception or tried to negotiate something with a publisher.
If nothing else they should’ve created a seperate legal entity
I mean, the stuff in the Great 78 Project is stuff that is so old that copyright was not designed to support the lengths of time they currently do so archiving wasn’t as big of a concern because the media it was created on would be less likely to deteriorate in that time. When the owner is a corporation who for the most part not only doesn’t sell but refuses to archive works that are breaking down due to the physical age of the media and would rather the works disappear than allow for archiving, how are they harmed to the tune of $150,000 per recording? And who is this benefiting to let recordings, stories, and other art forms literally turn to dust with no monetary profit going to anyone in most cases if it’s not archived.
This has nothing to do with right or wrong. It is totally a matter of them breaking the law. If they wanted to protect the Wayback machine they shouldn’t of played with fire. They could’ve applied for a copyright exception or tried to negotiate something with a publisher.
If nothing else they should’ve created a seperate legal entity