Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> 3.) Loosening of the restrictions on redistribution of archival material.
It
> should be possible to share content once the creators and all those who
might
> have heard or seen the original are dead. Preservation by distribution is
> somewhat of an alternative.
> Who is working on this?
>
Well, the problem is that those people/entities that are "working on"
the problem of copyright seem to be...at least for sound recordings...
working IN OPPOSITION to any "looosening of the restrictions...!" In
the 21st century, the general opinion seems to have become "If you
hold the copyright on an entity, for whatever reason, and there is
ANY possiblility you can...now or in the foreseeable future...gain
any money thereby, you will hold that right eternally or until the
end of time, whichever is last to occur!"

Steven C. Barr