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Especially for recordings that aren't even manufactured anymore, the industry has NO case. I think in that case, rights should revert to the artists anyway.

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I've already signed! Other musicians should as well!

The music industry obviously wants to prevent people from discovering how real music once sounded. Fuck them all!

They don't care about preservation, they just care about profits, preservation is not profitable to them, just something to keep in mind before making deals or such with them.

that’s not entirely true… there are plenty of young mobsters in the recording industry too!!

Cultural survival is one of the most important kinds of survival.

What can you expect from an industry that tried to sue John Fogerty for plagiarizing his own song stylings?

Why would anyone oppose such a library? Surely it's only doing good by keeping these valuable historical recordings? The world is a strange place sometimes.

Must be CONservatives suing. They conserve nothing but the try real hard to DESTROY everything. 🤬🤬🤬🤮🤮🤮

This is incredibly important. We need to make sure that archival projects like the internet archive are protected.

The music industry should fund the international sound archive. Australia and Britain have respectively the National Film and Sound Archive and the British Library Sound Archive. It's history, ya know.

Who battles the rationale of archiving, save for those who stand to profit? This feels precursor to a lot of dark sci-fi. No imaginable good shall come from corporate control over crucial libraries, and we stand to lose another entity designed for access to shared knowledge and experience.

Pro-preservation first, artist valued more, then Moguls bottom line. We need music to survive. We cannot build a house of music by destroying too many roots and trees of past artists works. How many songs do we remember from ancient civilisations ? Music and performances lost forever.

If we preserve the music of the past eventually all music will be copyright free as all combinations of whatever minimum length will have been done and that would sap profits so of course you have to destroy anything over a profitable age old so it can be copyrighted anew and make them new money

For decades Internet Archive has been a staple for live music lovers! Where else can I go and pull up my first ever Ekoostik Hookah show, relive for a couple hours the memories of NYE 2005? Or how about the short 4 song set where I discovered Umphreys McGee at a random single day festival?

Evil greedy people being more evil and greedy. Who knew.

Whole industry is dog shit

You guys are literally heroes

I just donated what I could. But you need to replace the “Share to X” with “Share to BlueSky”. Those who remain on X have no idea how important your organization is and would’t support you if they did.

Archives keep us alive so it's why they all want it destroyed.Facts in a dictatorship get burned (banned book club etc.). They want cheap-free labor without brains.

ROLLING STONES MAG is one reason independent musicians are getting so big.. THEY ARE CORPORATE SHILLS

That's quite true and of course it has been this way in the U.S. for decades now. The (sort of) defensible concept of "copyright" has, in the U.S., been weaponized by rich people and corporations, into something far more expansive than its original purpose.