Sony Music Entertainment and five other major music companies sued the non-profit Internet Archive, saying that its posting of thousands of old songs and recordings online amounts to “wholesale theft” of copyright-protected music.
The Internet Archive’s “blatant infringement includes hundreds of thousands of works by some of the greatest artists of the Twentieth Century,” lawyers for the record companies said in a lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan federal court. Among the artists cited: Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Thelonious Monk.
The companies include a list of 2749 recordings in the lawsuit, including Bing Crosby singing” White Christmas,” ...
