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re: Re-read the quote, people

Posted by: ryhog 11:52 am EDT 04/03/14
In reply to: re: Re-read the quote, people - Michael_Portantiere 11:40 am EDT 04/03/14

In theory, yes, but we can in fact take for granted that the OCR of Sweeney is already well and permanently preserved unless, as I say, there is some digital holocaust.

Personally, I think the bigger threat is not preservation but accessibility, as evidenced by what has happened to the Beatles catalogue.


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re: Re-read the quote, people

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:56 am EDT 04/03/14
In reply to: re: Re-read the quote, people - ryhog 11:52 am EDT 04/03/14

Agreed. Also, let's face it, addition to the Library of Congress registry generates publicity for old recordings and, therefore, hopefully gains them some new listeners. I'm sure you'll agree that's not a bad thing.

Is a significant amount of The Beatles' catalog now inaccessible? That's news to me, and I'm VERY surprised.


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Posted by: ryhog 12:15 pm EDT 04/03/14
In reply to: re: Re-read the quote, people - Michael_Portantiere 11:56 am EDT 04/03/14

I agree it is not a bad thing but I guess my question is whether that's the best use of the LOC's resources. I think it is more important to legitimately preserve music that, as Sondheim notes, is not otherwise known in the form in which it was recorded. And it is not like we have run out of unpreserved recordings.


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re: Re-read the quote, people

Posted by: ryhog 12:10 pm EDT 04/03/14
In reply to: re: Re-read the quote, people - Michael_Portantiere 11:56 am EDT 04/03/14

The Beatles catalog is owned by Apple, so digitally if you are not in the Apple ecosystem (and we should remember that even though it may seem ubiquitous in the affluent quarters of the US, it is not so universally) you cannot gain digital access. Now this may not seem like a crisis vis a vis the Beatles, but if you extend it out longterm to, say, the catalog of Jason Robert Brown, you can see that the lack of access is something to be concerned about in a digital world.


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the Beatles catalog is not owned by Apple, Inc.

Posted by: Vint 05:02 pm EDT 04/03/14
In reply to: re: Re-read the quote, people - ryhog 12:10 pm EDT 04/03/14

It's hard to keep track of these things, and the rights to the Beatles catalog has a long an checkered history, and there's the whole issue of Apple Records vs. Apple Computers being different companies united only in choice of name, but, as I understand it, at present:

EMI (the business successor of Apple Records, formerly part of Apple Corps) owns the Beatles recordings. Apple, Inc. (formerly Apple Computers) has a license to distribute the music via iTunes.


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No-just the digital distribution rights

Posted by: ryhog 05:48 pm EDT 04/03/14
In reply to: the Beatles catalog is not owned by Apple, Inc. - Vint 05:02 pm EDT 04/03/14

which they acquired from EMI and which, unless there is a remarkable u-turn, will be the only way to acquire it in due course. That is why you will not find Beatles on Spotify or Amazon as an example. This is what I mean when I say we should me more concerned about access than preservation. None of this music is going to disappear not that it is digitized, but if it is inaccessible or a corporation controls who can access it and at what price, that is cause for concern. And that is especially true in the theatre, where things tend to become obscure fairly quickly and fairly often.


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In reply to: No-just the digital distribution rights - ryhog 05:48 pm EDT 04/03/14

Re: the rights of Beatles songs.

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