Over 300 musicians signed an open letter backing the Internet Archive as it fights a copyright suit brought over its preservation of 78rpm records.
, which they suggest benefits “shareholder profits” more than actual artists. It continues: “We don’t believe that the Internet Archive should be destroyed in our name. The biggest players of our industry clearly need better ideas for supporting us, the artists, and in this letter we are offering them.”, says, “It’s an ironic gut punch to musicians and audiences alike to see that the Internet Archive could be destroyed in the name of protecting musicians.
Other artists who signed the letter include Deerhoof, Cloud Nothings, Open Mike Eagle, Diiv, Franz Nicolay of the Hold Steady, Eve 6, Mary Lattimore, Real Estate, Julia Holter, Kimya Dawson, Caroline Rose, Merrill Garbus , the Old 97’s Rhett Miller, Real Estate, Speedy Ortiz, Sarah Tudzin , Spencer Tweedy, Ted Leo, Brian Aubert of Silvers Pickups, Michael Travis of the String Cheese Incident, and Anjimilie.
Supporters of the suit — including the estates of many of the legacy artists whose recordings are involved — claim the Archive is doing nothing more than reproducing and distributing copyrighted works, making it a clear-cut case of infringement. The Archive, meanwhile, has always billed itself as a research library , and its supporters see the suit , as well as early works by other artists.
“The Archive has been essential to my creative life, and to musicians’ collective history, especially those of us outside the mainstream,” she says. “In a year already marked by injustice towards working artists, a lawsuit that targets this critical resource does zilch to us. There are legal interventions musicians need; this lawsuit is the furthest thing from them. I stand with the Internet Archive and the legacy it helps preserve, not the corporate forces trying to erase it.
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