For decades, Aadam Jacobs recorded live music shows.

[kottke@mastodon.social]

For decades, Aadam Jacobs recorded live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 features Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and so many more — and they're now available on the Internet Archive for free. https://kottke.org/26/04/online-treasure-trove-secret-concert-recordings

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@kottke
Copyright?

The performers own the performance copyright. The material is also mostly copyright.

But the Internet Archive went beyond backup of Websites to pirating of music, video, software and books.

[ovoao@mastodon.social]

@kottke

Awesome treasures for sure, but how is this legal?

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@raymierussell @kottke
Archive it properly and negotiate with rights holders of material and performance.
Eventually it will be in the Public Domain, though US Corporations have maliciously lobbied and got copyright period extended too much.

The long history of bootlegging has no impact on the morality or legality.

There is a long history of pirating books in the 19th C. esp. (and into 20th), by legitimate US publishers. The AI LLM purveyors have extensively pirated and used current pirates.

[sandradejong@mastodon.nl]

@GuusFrumau