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May I be the first to offer a cozy home to private collections that are refused on the basis of being a preservation burden? Steven Austin -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of George Brock-Nannestad Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:49 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ARSCLIST] A scenario for bequests From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad In the mood of the scenario that I posted about earlier today (but which has not appeared as I write, because " ARSCLIST list is held") I am considering the following: Some private collections are donated to public collections, generating tax deductions in the process. It also generates work for valuers to find out what these deductions might be. However, if receiving a collection puts a burden on the receiving agency to digitize and maintain the collection, I would expect that the deduction should properly be converted into a supplementary tax burden on the donor. In other words, if the collection does not come with the money to preserve it, then it could potentially be refused. In a similar vein, the materials that could be privately inherited from a "modern" collector could potentially be a payment of, say, ten years of professional maintenance of the backup of the sounds he has collected. Such payments could also be put up for public auction (similar to works of art today). This message will self-destruct in 315,619,200 seconds. Inheritance sucks. Or it certainly will, at some point in our development. Kind regards, George