[SPG_Active_Members] US Library of Congress: Copyright is Destroying Historic Audio

[Henry Lowood]

  Al,

By the way, in our final report on Preserving Virtual Worlds I, here:
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/17097
we reached pretty much the same conclusion with regard to DMCA + Bono 
and its impact on some activities involving imaging of original media.   
A huge problem is the exemption process, which requires renewal every 
three years -- some of the work we did during the project would be 
illegal today.

And in related news, PVW II has been funded by IMLS, so the project will 
continue through 2012.

Henry


On 10/9/2010 6:38 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> http://www.osnews.com/story/23888/US_Library_of_Congress_Copyright_Is_Destro
> ying_Historic_Audio
>
> " You think only "pirates" and "freeloaders" rail against current copyright
> laws? Well, think again - even the Library of Congress seemingly has had
> enough. The topic is recorded sound preservation, and in a 181-page in-depth
> study<http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub148abst.html>  , the Library of
> Congress concludes that apart from technical difficulties, US copyright law
> makes it virtually impossible for anyone to perform any form of audio
> preservation. The painted picture is grim - very grim.
>
> The very detailed and in-depth report has been ten years in the making, and
> was commissioned in the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000. The
> goal of the study was to inform Congress of the state of audio preservation,
> the difficulties encountered, what kind of standard procedures are needed
> for preservation, and so on. The conclusions in the report are grim, at
> best. "
>
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Henry Lowood
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    Film&  Media Collections
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