Brewster Kahle Willing To Host MP3.com Archive
from the will-get-ignored... dept
Lots of stories coming out in the last week or so since it became public that MP3.com was sold to CNET - but that it was just the domain. All of the music on MP3.com was going to get tossed out with the trash, which is pretty tragic. Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3.com said he was making an effort to get Vivendi Universal to reconsider and to host the archive somewhere, and now along comes Brewster Kahle to say that the Internet Archive would love to host all the MP3.com files if Vivendi Universal were up for it. Of course, knowing how Vivendi Universal views such things, you can be pretty sure the answer is going to be a big fat no. They'd much rather see the music destroyed than (gasp! no!) anyone get access to it for free.
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2. The most likely reason for Vivendi or CNET to refuse this offer is that they have no right to accept it. The copyrights on the songs belong to the artists, and I doubt the license they were uploaded under would allow something like this.
I would personally not want archive.org to archive my music unless I had the same control I had at MP3.com--the ability to take songs offline, upload revised versions, change song descriptions, and so on.
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Agreed, almost...
2. The most likely reason for Vivendi or CNET to refuse this offer is that they have no right to accept it. The copyrights on the songs belong to the artists, and I doubt the license they were uploaded under would allow something like this.
-- Well, I would hazard that a very small percentage of the songs were still owned by the artists, but were instead owned by a major label. Other than that, I agree, this is all just showmanship about nothing worth the attention. It's a disk array with some bits, to be wiped in the course of a corporate asset handover. Who cares?
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Another opinion on Michael / CNET / MP3 / Internet
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