This is a long article detailing the work of the Internet Archive to save and make available old recordings and the music industry's efforts to stop them. What I think is important here is to understand that it's not about money, it's about control. Sure, the music industry might make money on some of the recordings - the perennially popular White Christmas, for example. But without the Internet Archive, a lot of material is not available at all, since there's no profit in it for the labels. But do they have the right to make the past disappear? Adding to the complexity is the fact that the music industry itself exploited many of the artists it recorded. "You would hope that there might be some balancing act, or that everybody could play nice in the sandbox, and come up with solutions that benefit all... but that's not really how business is done." Via Dan Gillmor.
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