From the 'Save the Archive' site: "But when their Great 78 Project rescued over 400,000 recordings, major labels responded with a lawsuit against the Internet

From the 'Save the Archive' site: "But when their Great 78 Project rescued over 400,000 recordings, major labels responded with a lawsuit against the Internet Archive for research library streams of old vinyl records.... Artists and labels alike should partner with valuable cultural stewards like the Internet Archive—not sue them. It’s time to support nonprofit music preservation to ensure that our music and our stories aren’t lost to history." Most of the hundreds of old 78 labels (Brunswick, Federal, Odeon, Okeh, to name a few) [0] are long gone, as are their masters (if any) and their artists. IA recovered those recordings from existing copies made long, long ago... preserving a cultural heritage directly from collections of music available -only- on 78s. Many of the recordings were made with fragile shellac. That is apparently the focus of these invidious lawsuits. [0] http://78discography.com/ http://78discography.com/