Do you recall when the Internet archive started their "Great 78 Project" to digitize and cleaning up all the old 78rpm records of the past? It had received a lot of positive media attention back when it began. I recall watching some cool videos of the equipment used to accomplish it, specialized turntables with numerous tracking arms, each capturing the audio from the record grooves at particular angles (or something like that) to ensure the best quality of digital reproduction could be achieved, pretty cool. To date they've digitzed over 400,000 Recordings of 78rpm records which they have been obtaining primarily from collections of the general public for some time.
https://great78.archive.org/
I hadn't noticed much talk about it since it began, but evidently they had been sued for copyright infringement over that it too, just like their recent suit (which they lost) a year or so ago over books.. However, some kind of agreement has been made concerning the 78rpm records .. it's not clear what, but it appears to be good news:
Music labels, Internet Archive settle record-streaming copyright case
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/music-labels-internet-archive-settle-record-streaming-copyright-case-2025-09-15 /
Universal Music Group, Sony Music and other record labels told a California federal court on Monday that they have settled a copyright lawsuit against the nonprofit Internet Archive over its digitization and streaming of vintage records.
The labels and the Internet Archive said in a filing, opens new tab that they had resolved their dispute and asked the court to pause the case "while the performance of certain settlement terms is pending." Spokespeople for the Archive and the music-industry trade group Recording Industry Association of America said that the terms of the settlement were confidential. .... ....
I did notice that suddenly you couldn't download some music there. If you tried to torrent the list it wouldn't, or wouldn't provide the option like it had before. Made it real slow to download music.
