They covered it in the apnews source. Takedowns are available but only a few bands requested it, most were supportive of the archive.
reply> Takedowns are available but only a few bands requested it
reply101% chance Metallica did this
Who? I feel like there used to be a band by that name. Not sure what became of them.
reply101% kiss
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reply> Jacobs said the majority of the artists he recorded are pleased to have their work preserved. As for copyright concerns, he’s happy to remove recordings if requested, but added that only one or two musicians so far have asked that their material be taken down.
I think the keyword here is "preserved". These are old recordings that cannot realistically be recreated by any other method. AI may reconstruct some parts, but it's still not the real thing. These recordings are time capsules.
Mirror the archive before it get taken down.
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