Thanks, great article. At Sound and Vision in the Netherlands we recently digitized nearly 10.000 (mainly Dutch) 78 rpm records. Unfortunately researching whether this material is PD or not is an enormous effort. By the looks of it only a very small part of it will be PD in the US. Once the research is finished we will upload these to commons.

2014-08-04 16:18 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com:

You're familiar with this, I take it:

http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

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This is a good read in its own right:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/amanda_petrusich_s_do_not_s...

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but the thesis that some 78rpm records constitute the only surviving example of a particular recording, with no master in an archive somewhere, sent chills up my spine.

-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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On 4 August 2014 19:07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:

Eh there used to be fairground/seaside booths where you could cut your own record. One the plus side this stuff should last longer than say floppy discs.

I've wanted one of these for years: http://www.elpj.com/ OTOH, even the Internet Archive doesn't bother with those, they just use ordinary Technics turntables.

- d.

On 5 August 2014 10:55, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

On 4 August 2014 19:24, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

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I've wanted one of these for years: http://www.elpj.com/

How much? Maybe we should put in a grant application.

Tens of thousands of dollars and a waiting list ... and I don't know anyone who actually has one and uses it for preservation. Though apparently they are *damn fine*.

- d.