2012-02-02 16:32:50 GMT
Interesting article in the New York Times about an avid collector of traditional music and his collection, which will soon go online. This might become a great resource for SHS !
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Topic: The Alan Lomax Collection Online
2012-02-02 23:57:20 GMT
That seems like a promising project indeed. I hope they will provide additional information and publish the original notes Alan Lomax made.
2012-03-01 23:52:25 GMT
The problem for SecondHandsongs is that these are recordings intended for the use of scholars only within the confines of the Library of Congress. So they do not fit the definition of public recording as used here. Only a limited number have been released as commercial recordings.
If recordings are then available online for listening only, does this make them now public? Following the policy on V discs and radio transcriptions, the answer is "no".
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