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Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

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335 points coloneltcb | 1 comments | 15 Sep 25 22:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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pessimizer ◴[19 Sep 25 15:58 UTC] No.45303139[source]▶
If I had to guess, I'd say that the settlement was a lot closer to $41K than one would think, and that's why it's being kept quiet. Otherwise, the labels saw themselves either losing a famous copyright case in the age of LLM threats to copyright, or winning a famous copyright case in an awkward fashion that made people far less sympathetic to them.

People are on copyright holders' side in the battle with LLMs. Either winning or losing this case would be poison.

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1. badlibrarian ◴[19 Sep 25 17:47 UTC] No.45304424[source]▶
The settlement was beating them down and getting them to remove millions of items and police things going forward. Things are still disappearing left and right. Huge damage was done to the culture by Brewster's ill-advised, hardcore stance that played right into the hands of corporate interests.