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Originally Posted by radio63
As far as the WRC tape, one of the people involved in the transfer of this tape is a member of AK. Perhaps if he sees this he will post. I don't know how willing he would be to facilitate copies to collectors. I got the impression he did not want to stick his neck out and was rather timid about getting copies of the material he has out.
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I can understand why he doesn't want to go to far out for anyone. If the material then ends up on Youtube or something then everyone knows who's to blame.
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Originally Posted by radio63
I've always had issues with the UCLA archives. I think it is great how they are the repository for so much priceless material but yet the public has absolutely no access to any of this. That's terrible. You must be an educator or television producer to have access to any of the material and even then I would imagine it is a pain to deal with them. Much friendlier to the public is the Museum of TV and Radio. I have been to the one in Beverly Hills many times. At least there you can view vintage programs and hear old radio programs. And they are available for viewing/listening to the public, although they do not sell copies. Sadly, all of this great old historical material is often tied up with copyright holders, and a host of other legal issues that prevent them from being released. I think it is obscene the amount of wonderful material that is under lock and key because of legal issues. A lot of that material are early color TV shows.
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There does seem to be a lot of abuse of copyright. As long as culture is a owned by someone FOREVER it will always be that way. I'm all for copyright law, as an occasional content producer myself. But the current application is broken, and its mostly due to the extraordinary long lengths that copyright lasts, much longer than a single human life in a lot of cases.
Well, enough soap boxing.
David