New Jersey Radio Museum Looking for a "few great airchecks"

[carlvenorden]

As part of our fundraising effort to build our floor of the New Jersey Radio Museum, located on Blackwell Street, Dover, NJ, NJRM is looking for airchecks and jingles from current and former NJ radio personalities.

We have quite a collection right now, but it is not, or may never be complete.

Our plan is to produce a CD full of NJ radio airchecks to sell at our next big fundraising show.
And, here is a hint: it will be the same show, but bigger and better than this years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The key to submitting your airchecks or that of someone elses, is that they must be cleared so that we can dub them to a CD to sell.

If you have an aircheck you would like to donate to NJRM, and possibly be featured on this CD, please send an email to me, Carl Van Orden, President of NJRM, at [email protected]
We can only accept cassette tapes, or CD's at this time.

Thank you!

 

[eatspaste]

Our plan is to produce a CD full of NJ radio airchecks to sell at our next big fundraising show.

Can you legally sell a CD containing copyrighted works, in this case radio jingles?

Just wonderin'!

 

[BRUSSTAR]

Without permission, no.

Selling airchecks without a whole slew of permissions currently finds itself in a legal gray area. Assuming the music is scoped (it would absolutely have to be), there's the NEARLY (but not totally) impossible task of tracking down the rightsholder to the various broadcasts in question. Many of the stations of yesteryear were owned by companies which no longer exist. There's also the question of the airtalent (the "performer") which also, according to some legal minds, needs to be compensated.

GIVING AWAY copies of airchecks is legally fine, as it's considered a "fair use" for historical purposes.

Whether or not the distributor makes a profit (as opposed to a non-profit effort, or a charitible fund drive) has absolutely no bearing when it comes to copyright law. And in some cases, the mere mention of "intent" has been inadmissible in court.

(I looked into doing this several years ago.)

 

[Geb]

An aircheck museum? This is so lame!

Next: Start bottling gas emissions for the NJ flatulence museum.

 

[dkocolin]

Geb - if you're not interested then don't post. There's no need to be a tool about it.

 

[amfmsw]

Geb, put your glasses on. It's a request for airchecks for the NJ Radio Museum, NOT an aircheck museum. There's been a lot of history with NJ Broadcasting...Marconi's transmissions overseas from Radio Road in Tuckerton (see Tom McNally's site), Armstrongs first commercial FM, the roots of the Mutual network originating from WOR Newark. And truly world changing electronics R&D here in NJ, like the development of the transistor. Not to mention borrowing many Edison's patents for broadcasting, like the vacuum tube.