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Radio Airchecks - How to preserve history - Legally - Ideas?

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Buzz

The problem I see with Airchecks is that there are multiple Copyright holders for any given work.

You have the Broadcaster, (entity, talent), and then the content, (music company, ad agency, production house, news bureau), and they all have skin in the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircheck

Interesting that the link listed above makes no mention of Copyright in regard to Airchecks.

So how can we legally share Historical recordings since we may all possess a little piece of History.

For My personal Repository, I would feel much better if it was located at multiple locations.

Should I pass away, I fear that those recordings would be discarded and gone forever.

Some are really too good to lose.

Ideas?
 
The obvious way (maybe too obvious) is in the various museums of broadcasting around the country. One I'm aware of is the Paley Center in NY, formerly the Museum of Television & Radio. There's also the Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, also home to the Museum of Broadcast Communications. I've learned there are also a number of major colleges and universities that have become repositories for certain aircheck collections. These would be ones that also have large broadcasting schools, such as NYU, Maryland, USC, and Penn.

But yes, you're correct that housing such collections online poses a copyright problem. Since the establishment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the music in the airchecks is subject to music royalties. A number of organizations sought an exemption based on educational grounds and were denied. So any form of archive is best done in a physical format rather than online.
 
The bottom line is that recordings strictly for personal use have generally been found to be fair use. But distributing those personal recordings is not. So the best way to continue your collection "by the book" would be to give it to another collector, or possibly to an amalgamated collection as BigA mentions.

If you're less concerned about doing it "by the book" and more concerned about plausible deniability, just upload them somewhere, like YouTube. Probably you would need to scope out the music to keep YouTube from automatically taking them down.
 
Buzz said:
The problem I see with Airchecks is that there are multiple Copyright holders for any given work.

You have the Broadcaster, (entity, talent), and then the content, (music company, ad agency, production house, news bureau), and they all have skin in the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircheck

Interesting that the link listed above makes no mention of Copyright in regard to Airchecks.

So how can we legally share Historical recordings since we may all possess a little piece of History.

For My personal Repository, I would feel much better if it was located at multiple locations.

Should I pass away, I fear that those recordings would be discarded and gone forever.

Some are really too good to lose.

Ideas?
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What all airchecks do you have in your collection that should be preserved?
 
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