Dear Mason, Thank you, first of all, for your continued wonderful work, and for explaining about the copyright issue. I didn't know that about the older US regime for print. I use your Phonograph Monthly Review scans just about every day! Best wishes, Nick -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mason Vander Lugt Sent: 09 June 2017 15:25 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] digitized Disques Magazine from the 1930's being uploaded to the Internet Archive Thanks Brewster. Disques is the latest in a National Recording Preservation Board sponsored project to scan historical serials about audio and record collecting and post them to Archive.org for public access. I've written a bit for the ARSC Blog (http://arsc-audio.org/blog/) about some completed projects, and plan to write about the most recent (Hillandale News) and current (Disques/TNR) soon. We're always looking for good-condition, unbound copies of related magazines in the public domain or with the potential to clear rights. We've found that many magazine publishers never renewed copyright, pushing public domain into the 60s, and some never registered or included printed notice, pushing public domain into the 70s or 80s (see http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm). To address Nick's suggestion, I don't think the French Disques is PD, unfortunately. For all of the complication of U.S. audio copyrights, I've found U.S. print copyrights less restrictive in dealing (pre-'78) with publication dates rather than contributors' lifetimes. If anyone reading has got a collection they want to loan or a suggestion for us to look into, please write me off-list. And thanks to those who have contributed so far! Mason Vander Lugt Recorded Sound Processing Technician National Recording Preservation Board Assistant National AV Conservation Center Library of Congress (202) 707-0358