On 26 February 2012 23:21, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
We could think more long term and start building up a collection of things to digitise and make available once their copyright expires.
What copyright term are we talking about for something like this? 50 years? Or would it be a life+70 thing? If it's just 50 years, then that may not be too long to wait.
70 years assuming no further extensions. However Beethoven recordings are so common that they are unlikely to be of any real interest to us. In practice about the only things that are old enough to be of interest to us and that we would actually be able to digitalise are shellac-based 78s.