Re: arsclist Digitizing Audio for Library Use

["Jennifer A. Cutting" <jcut@xxxxxxx>]

Harry, 

I'm forwarding your question to our National Digital Library team, who
deal with digitizing the American Folklife Center's unpublished 
collections of traditional music and spoken word for our online
presentations here at the Library of Congress (to see examples of these,
click on "Collections Available Online" at www.loc.gov/folklife).  

The person who leads this team is Tom Bramel <tbra@xxxxxxx>

Hope this helps, 

Jennifer Cutting

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Jennifer Cutting, Folklife Specialist  
Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center             
Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC  20540-4610
email: jcut@xxxxxxx      tel: (202) 707-1731
http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 harry_rice@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I would like to know what recorded sound collections are doing presently in
> terms of digitizing unpublished audio materials for inclusion in web based
> educational presentations. 
> 
> The use that I have been ask about is the possibility of a library consortium
> including excerpts of traditional music field recordings to illustrate differing
> instrumental and vocal styles.
> 
> I would be particularly interested in knowing how issues of copyright /
> permission to use are being addressed, especially when the performer is unknown,
> deceased. or in cases of group performances such as a worship service. 
> Generally, are collection administrators finding leeway to mount such efforts in
> the Library Exemptions and Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyricht Act? 
> 
> Harry Rice
> Sound Archivist
> Hutchins Library
> Berea College
> Berea, KY 40404
> 
>