The Internet Archive cops a new lawsuit, this time from record labels

The Internet Archive has been slapped with a lawsuit from UMG, Sony and Capitol, who have an issue with around 2,700 out of 400,000 records preserved and digitised by the IA's Great 78 Project. They argue that most of the music is "already available to stream or download from licensed online platforms" and "face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed", with the IA's preservation simply a rouse for wholesale piracy. Also, the Internet Archive has posted that after losing its court case against book publishers it will be making changes to its lending program. According to the court documents the publishers want all books "commercially available in any format" removed from the IA - which sounds bad, but in practice, we now have a precedent for things out of print. The New York Times has a good summary of what the case was about and where it's at now.