Re: [Swlfest] Public broadcaster music library closing, CD’s to be digitised, destroyed

[ggjn]

Yes,  but there are two things at play here – copyright considerations and 
retention costs– they ARE going to digitize the collection for archival 
purposes.   So the intellectual material will be preserved, and for a longer 
period of time.   But this leads to three problems with the originals =



a.   They  may not be able to distribute them (money or not,  has very 
little to do with copyrights).   So giving them away,  selling them, etc. isn’t 
an option.



b.  They don’t have the time to research every item and confirm copyrights 
and ask for a waiver



c.   Keeping an archive like that costs money.   When you’re talking the 
CBC,  it’s taxpayers’ money.   Just to retain the archives is going to cost 
money.


You’ll note that a great deal of television archival film footage from the 
40s-50s-60s is gone,  because the three major TV networks would have had to use 
their stockholders’ money to retain an archive,   on material that was thought 
to have no or very little commercial value.   Much of it was intentionally 
destroyed.

Greg 

 

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http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2018/02/23/public-broadcaster-music-library-closing-cds-to-be-digitised-destroyed/

 

Found this story on Twitter. Absolutely incredible loss of history...

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Re: [Swlfest] Public broadcaster music library closing, CD’s to be digitised, destroyed

[Thomas Sundstrom]

It isn't just CDs here. There are LPs and 78s that never made it to the CD
format, in addition to other print and written material. I understand
budgets. Just saying... it is a shame.

On Feb 24, 2018 6:37 PM, "ggjn"  wrote:

> Yes,  but there are two things at play here – copyright considerations and
> retention costs– they ARE going to digitize the collection for archival
> purposes.   So the intellectual material will be preserved, and for a
> longer period of time.   But this leads to three problems with the
> originals =
>
> a.   They  may not be able to distribute them (money or not,  has
> very little to do with copyrights).   So giving them away,  selling them,
> etc. isn’t an option.
>
> b.  They don’t have the time to research every item and confirm
> copyrights and ask for a waiver
>
> c.   Keeping an archive like that costs money.   When you’re talking
> the CBC,  it’s taxpayers’ money.   Just to retain the archives is going to
> cost money.
>
>
> You’ll note that a great deal of television archival film footage from the
> 40s-50s-60s is gone,  because the three major TV networks would have had to
> use their stockholders’ money to retain an archive,   on material that was
> thought to have no or very little commercial value.   Much of it was
> intentionally destroyed.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> *From:* Swlfest [mailto:swlfest-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] *On Behalf Of 
> *Thomas
> Sundstrom
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 24, 2018 5:10 PM
> *To:* swlfest@hard-core-dx.com
> *Subject:* [Swlfest] Public broadcaster music library closing, CD’s to be
> digitised, destroyed
>
>
>
> http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2018/02/23/public-broadcaster-
> music-library-closing-cds-to-be-digitised-destroyed/
>
>
>
> Found this story on Twitter. Absolutely incredible loss of history...
>
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