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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Sundstrom Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 5:10 PM To: [email protected] 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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