Re: [ARSCLIST] Podcasting--explained a bit...

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

see end!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
> Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > While I have some problems with the technology, it is the rights issue
that
> > is most inhibiting to me. There needs to be some way this material can
be made
> > accessible to the Internet world, as if it were a museum or library
display,
> > without the unlimited liability the present law provides.
>
> I have often wished that something akin to what the RIAA tolerates now
> would be implemented by law. That is, it does not inhibit analogue
> duplication of digital material, judging that in sacrificing the
> particular (if dubious) advantages of DDD fidelity, rights are not
> sacrificed. For years, I have espoused a philosophy of 'horizontal'
> sampling: offering complete works in modest fidelity as representation
> of the whole rather than selected moments in highest sound quality.
>
> To know whether the selection is worth the time and money of
> professional processing, it is sufficient to hear a low-fidelity
> transfer. Why not declare that such a recording is within fair use if it
> provides cataloguing? It is the audio catalogue - in this case, of
> candidates for high-quality processing - that is sought. If someone
> wants to use the catalogue entry, so be it; that happens in the art
> world as well where the reproduction in a show's catalogue is sufficient
> for some purposes in representing the work itself.
>
> Of course, it's not a small point that posting a modest-fidelity sample
> fits Internet (and hard-drive) constraints. If someone is interested
> enough to create a 96/24 transfer and to apply the skills and tools such
> as CEDAR, he is interested enough to clear rights. But let us first use
> whatever capture we have to produce a 32 Kbps monaural MP3 for the
> Internet, where the recording can be auditioned though fidelity is lost.
>
> Frankly, it's what I've been doing for a decade.
>
What is needed, then, is the legalization of copies of ANALOG(UE)
sound recordings...on the basis that this antiquated method of
preserving sound produced nothing of interest to modern-day
listeners...!?

Steven C. Barr