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

[Tim Shoppa]

Al Kossow <kossow at computerhistory.org> wrote:
> http://www.osnews.com/story/23888/US_Library_of_Congress_Copyright_Is_Destro
> ying_Historic_Audio

The report gives some good examples of the many barriers (technical,
organizational, legal, beauracratic) to preserving
the remaining archives of historic radio broadcasts, perhaps the most
"common denominator" of the commons in audio for most of the past
century and something that is easy for me, at least, to identify with
as culturally important.

But it raises a question in
my head: what is the non-audio "computer equivalent" of a radio
broadcast? Is the best analogy today just a public webpage?

My feeling is that archive.org is doing a pretty good job with the
public webpages. It's easy to find lots of holes but that would
be ignoring how well it does everything but the holes.

Tim.