Retention of Recordings vs Copyright and Ownership vs Preservation and
Technology

The Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2013

"... American record companies that aren't interested in reissuing old
records can stop anyone else from doing so, and can also stop libraries from
making those same records readily accessible to scholars who want to use
them for noncommercial purposes. Even worse, it means that American
libraries cannot legally copy records made before 1972 to digital formats
for the purpose of preservation-not unless those records have already
deteriorated to the point where they may soon become unplayable. That's
crazy."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323826704578356282705139450.ht
ml?mod=googlenews_wsj

The WSJ article mentions "The Library of Congress National Recording
Preservation Plan":

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/13-014.html

It's interesting that RIMers and IGers seldom think in terms of these
retentoin time frames and conflicts, though archivists often do.

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John Phillips
Information Technology Decisions
www.infotechdecisions.net

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