--- On Mon, 1/10/11, Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Your taxpayer dollars being given to the Universal Music Group.
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Monday, January 10, 2011, 11:56 AM
On 1/10/2011 11:14 AM, Karl Miller wrote:
> If you read the article below you will not that Universal will retain copyright ownership to their recordings.
> Karl
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That is the same deal that the NBC collection is under.
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Same as most of the unique recordings held at LOC and other institutions...yet as we approach copyrights in perpetuity, the rationale for spending taxpayer money for this sort of activity seems questionable to me, especially when there will not be reasonable access and even more so when the copyright owner has stated upfront that they plan to use the digitized recordings for their own profit.
Will LOC get a cut of the profit from the sale of the recordings they have digitized?
For me, there are substantive ethical questions on both sides of the argument, but it seems to me that there is room for questioning the use of public funds for this purpose.
Karl
Karl
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