Complaint claims organization’s “Great 78 Project,” which includes music from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and more serves as an “illegal record store”

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
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    “In reality, Defendants are nothing more than mass infringers.”

    Nothing more? Really? I mean it sounds like they are on shaky ground with this project, but that statement seems awfully reductive. It’s okay; they are allowed to be important and good and also be wrong (if they are, I’m not a lawyer).

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      Given the age of the music they cite this whole thing reminds me how ridiculously long copyright terms are.