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

[Al Kossow]

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. "