Hi James:
I hear you loud and clear. I don't blame the LOC for the screwy copyright laws, and indeed many LOC
employees are members of ARSC, which is actively lobbying to loosen the laws so citizens may have
more widely-available access to the LOC's contents.
I think you hear my frustrations clearly, as I hear yours.
-- Tom Fine
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From: "Wolf, James L" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New York Subways Radio Documentary
Tom,
For better and for worse, copyright is not contingent on monetary value, nor upon the specific
conditions of a work's creation.
Like most everyone else in the archiving community, I agree that US copyright terms are ludicrous,
especially on sound recordings - so I share your frustration. But I also have to sympathize with the
LOC as an institution. As the administrator of copyright, it is completely bound to follow the law.
I've commented before that its copyright functions put it at cross-purposes with its role as the
nation's library. But until Congress splits off copyright and grants special dispensation to skirt
the law, this is how things will be.
James
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Tom Fine
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 11:06 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New York Subways Radio Documentary
Well hopefully the BBC will put it online. I can't imagine it has one penny of monetary value, so
this whole discussion of ownership and rights is ridiculous, it should be out in the public domain
already (note that it would be in the UK). Plus, it wouldn't have been possible without access to
the publicly-funded NYC subway system, which I believe operated at that time (and operates to this
day) with a heavy subsidy from federal taxes, hence partial ownership by every U.S. citizen.
Yet another case of something the preservation and maintenance of which is funded by those who can't
get any access to it (unless they live local to Washington DC and can take the time to wade through
the LOC access rules and listen to it in person, which may well cost them extra money). Very
frustrating!
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolf, James L" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New York Subways Radio Documentary
LOC could not post this online without permission from rightsholders. The same would be necessary to
obtain a private copy from LC. So that would be BBC, whoever now owns the rights to WOR, and
possibly the heirs of Dick Willard.
James
Personal opinions only. Not a statement of official LC policy, etc.
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Tom Fine
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 8:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New York Subways Radio Documentary
How does one get a copy of this recording? Can LOC post it online?
-- Tom Fine
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From: "Thom" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New York Subways Radio Documentary
>A copy exists at the Library of Congress. See: http://lccn.loc.gov/2002660082
>
> Thom Pease
> Library of Congress
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Chris J Brady <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Have you tried
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Television_%26_Radio
>>
>> CJB
>>
> LC control no.: 2002660082
> LCCN permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/2002660082
> Type of material: Nonmusic Sound Recording
> Main title: New York subways [sound recording].
> Published/Created: 1948.
> Description: 2 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 16 in.
> Related names Willard, Dick.
> WOR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
> British Broadcasting Corporation.
> Performer: WOR reporters: Dick Willard ... [et al.]
> Credits: Presented by radio station WOR in cooperation with the BBC.
> Summary: A radio documentary that examines the New York City subway
> system. WOR reporters talk to various employees of the subway system
> including a dispatcher, brakeman, signal maintenance man, staff member
> of the lost and found, and a police officer. Includes a discussion of
> the engineering system and its costs. Closes with an interview with a
> nineteen-year-old female passenger, who was named Miss Subway of the
> Month.
> Subjects: Subways --New York (State) --New York.
> Local transit --New York (State) --New York.
> Form/Genre: Documentary radio programs.
> Notes: Recorded Jan. 28, 1948, by WOR, New York, for broadcast in
> Great Britain.
> Additional formats: Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library
> of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1968. On 1 sound tape reel
> : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.
> LC classification: LWO 5520 r12A1-3 (preservation master)
> CALL NUMBER: LWO 5520 r12 (preservation master)
> -- Request in: Request in advance in Rec Sound Ref Center (Madison, LM113)
> -- Status: Not Charged
>
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