Does anyone know why the Internet Archive seems to be deliberately picking expensive legal fights? Surely they're not really worried that White Christmas will be lost to history.
They're just not digitizing hit songs, they're digitizing forgotten artists and rare recordings. The Internet Archive is extremely valuable to music historians like myself in finding and understanding artists who have never been reissued and whose recordings are difficult to find. If they're forced to pull down these recordings from public access, it will be a huge loss to cultural history.
Yeah, and they'd have a much stronger leg to stand on in court (or more likely never even get dragged into court) if they were focusing only on rare, out-of-print music.
My question stands: why are they deliberately picking this fight?
