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Preserving Airchecks and Making Them Available

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BruceNYC

Airchecks have historical value and should be preserved and made available for future listening. I suggest that aircheck collectors donate copies of their recordings to organizations such as the Paley Center for Media in NYC, The Performing Arts Center of the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress. Any comments?
 
fybush said:
The Paley Center has no interest in random airchecks. There are some specialized repositories that will be much more interested in preserving what we have. Or just upload them all to archive.org and let them survive that way.
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What Scott said, with one caveat:

They may not survive at archive-dot-org. The Internet Archive has lost at least one lawsuit regarding printed material that could set precedent for anything stored there that is not public domain. That's assuming the Archive can actually survive (which is never a given). The print case is currently making its way through the appeals process.
 
There needs to be an exemption written into the DCMA that allows for exceptions like archive.org, not-for-profit sites that archive material for historical purposes. That was a big oversight. (Though good luck getting anyone to sponsor such a bill, let along getting it passed, let alone signed, in the next Congress.)

(Edit: First "exception" corrected to "exemption". My typo.)
 
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Weiserguy said:
There needs to be an exemption written into the DCMA that allows for exceptions like archive.org, not-for-profit sites that archive material for historical purposes. That was a big oversight. (Though good luck getting anyone to sponsor such a bill, let along getting it passed, let alone signed, in the next Congress.)

(Edit: First "exception" corrected to "exemption". My typo.)
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Isn't the main issue music, the same as with YouTube channels/airchecks that get removed? If it's just DJ chatter, isn't it more likely to be exempted?
 
Weiserguy said:
There needs to be an exemption written into the DCMA that allows for exceptions like archive.org, not-for-profit sites that archive material for historical purposes. That was a big oversight. (Though good luck getting anyone to sponsor such a bill, let along getting it passed, let alone signed, in the next Congress.)
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There was a lot of discussion of updating the DMCA and the result was the Music Modernization Act pf 2018. Anything having to do with broadcast radio is subject non grata, as broadcast radio doesn't pay label or artist royalties. All of the other participants in the MMA do. The big discussion during the MMA was to force the royalty on radio. The rep from Sirius pushed it very hard. It was veto'd by radio, and as a result, any other proposals were also turned down. So there you go.
 
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