The Internet Archive and the major labels have settled a $621 million lawsuit over the IA's efforts to preserve 78 rpm records.

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Over two years later, Universal Music, Sony Music, and the Internet Archive have officially settled their copyright ...

Universal Music Group , Sony Music and other record labels told a California federal court on Monday that they have settled a ...

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac ...

The parties requested that Judge Maxine Chesney pause all case deadlines while they complete the settlement terms.

The copyright lawsuit was over its Great 78 Project, which digitized and streamed vintage recordings by artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra.

A federal judge sided in favor of the four leading publishers in the U.S. who sued the Internet Archive for scanning and lending out numerous digital copies of copyrighted books for free during the ...

Update on 10/20/24 added to the bottom of this article. Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication ...