• @Olap@lemmy.world
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    101 year ago

    Copyright law to blame here. If the labels don’t defend it, then they could be sued themselves. Internet Archive shouldn’t be in America though, far too stringent

    • @echo64@lemmy.world
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      151 year ago

      That’s not how copyright law works. You don’t have to defend it or risk being sued.

      Copyright law actually has specific exceptions for libraries and hasn’t been updated for the modern world, which is the actual problem.

    • Rikudou_Sage
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      91 year ago

      You’re mistaking it with trademarks - those you have to defend or you lose them.

        • @chinpokomon@lemmy.world
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          41 year ago

          Seems like that should be a problem already. I have family that was in the music industry and collected royalties. They won a few Grammys, so the royalties were substantial. Their estate should not continue to receive royalties indefinitely. Hell, as much as I loved them, they shouldn’t be collecting indefinitely. They worked hard their entire life and because of that hard work, they deserved to live comfortably in retirement until they passed, but they weren’t owed anything they didn’t deserve. And as much as I love their kids, they’re family too, it isn’t as though they deserved any income for something their parent did decades earlier, before they had families of their own.