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rights to  personal correspondence. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of adam kolkman
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 3:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Thank You for responses to Unpublished Sound
Recordings query

It seems to me that all of the reports produced by the Library of Congress'
National Recording Preservation Board have a major gap in their research.
Non of them seem to address how copyright law treats non-comercial
recordings. Some of these reports look at specific instances, such as
recordings of non-commercial radio stations, but they fall way short of
comprehensively treating the issue. Do any of you know much about this
subject?

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Phil Nohl
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Thanks to all who have so far responded to my email.
>
> The following links have been forwarded to me.
>
> http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub144abst.html
>
> http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
>
> The report commissioned for and sponsored by The National Recording 
> Preservation Board on Pre-1972 Copyrights is fascinating, though much 
> still remains confusing to me. With amateur recordings, there are 
> often no "recorded on" dates written on a label (and many times not 
> even a full name). All that remains is the recording itself.
>
> Phil Nohl
>