Blog 8
Reactions to “Only in America: The Unique Status of Sound
Recordings under U.S Copyright Law and How It Threatens Our Audio Heritage.”
U.S
copyright law is an amazing complex web of … unique perimeters. While a variety
of words could better describe it, these laws were made to support and protect intellectual
property. One huge issue when it comes these kinds of lawsuits is it citing
which law or act did pass and interpret the words to their advantage. This has
allowed a majority of the issues that plague sound recording today. With
corporations being an entity with larger sums of money then an average citizen,
this allows them to collect and hold the rights to huge sums of copyright. Luckily we had a cap on how long one can hold
on to a copyright. But that doesn’t always work out. A reissue of copyrights are
more common and more important for today’s market, which is horrible for those
needing music for their concerts or needing to study a work for their research.
Giving me the wish for changing the laws, which quickly lead to remembering the
state of the world right now, and knowing most laws given to congress have the
same odds of passing no matter what public opinion is on the issue. If you are
fighting for the side with less money then you will most likely lose. Even with
that said; the academic community should be their own bubble. While the
terminology of that kind of bill could easily be distorted, the idea of giving
colleges a pass on these copyright constraints would allow scholarly studies to
flourish a bit more.
Reactions to “How streaming media could threaten the mission
of libraries”
Lovely, instead of buying music, we rent it…I think my
favorite part about this was the disconnection between the artist the consumer.
While personally I agree that downloading everything is a waste of space with
how streaming works now. We need to be able to keep things we enjoy other then
a playlist to share. But I said personally, this should not apply to libraries.
Most people who go to a library are going to one with a good reason. We
shouldn’t hinder a community’s education because companies are trying to piggyback
on the education debt till it crashes and burns. (Companies make the colleges
pay more for access, makes colleges spend more money for that access, which
makes the school more expensive, which means they need to cut costs, which keep
those teachers adjunct, which pisses off the teachers who then piss off the
students, which makes them temperamental so they stress eat, which leads to why
there are no blueberry muffins left in the library coffee shop after 8am bib) All
jokes aside, this isn’t funny, this allows companies to have all power in
relation to where our content is held. For profit entities with that level of
power is only asking for corruption to grow and profit from surrounding
citizens.
Reactions to Belfer Audio Archive
The Belfer
some lovely programs within it. These project stem from the resources by
Syracuse University. The Sound Beat project has these cool archive episodes
that showcase old audios within their archive and talk about its history and
additional thoughts about the music. Pairing these old recording with their
history in a small blurb is fantastic to gain information quickly about a
recording. Their first episode was posted March 4, 2011 and it was about Les
Paul’s horrible car accident. Another
big program is the Belfer Cylinder Digital Connection, which gives online
access to the cylinder recordings they have. This is an ongoing project with
new addition regularly. They have a surprisingly limited set of solo accordion
music, but hopefully that grows in time.
Reactions to Nation Jukebox Project
The Nation Jukebox Project project is from the Library of Congress. These
historical sound recordings are made free to the public. In addition, this
project has other libraries and archives contributing to this project to help
grow this resource. I was very happy with my browsing of this project’s
archive. I found some lovely yodeling pieces. One that was quite impacting to
my current mood was “Sleep, baby sleep” by Ward Barton. It was perfect way to
end my browsing.
Dallas....your last statement was fricken hilarious and made me crack up. So ridiculous lol....on a serious note, great reflection! I agree with these rules having an impact on disconnection and I feel that is why people should look at these laws to let this not happen. And as funny as your rant went on, the beginning is quite true about money. and sad. And that leads to your money statement in "only america". Large corporations are easily able to keep it away from us....where will we find a middle ground to access and preservation?
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this, I'm left with the image of an old corporation owner eating a pile of blueberry muffins and using a billfold as a napkin. Corporations and copyright make things annoying. And to make things even harder, we who need the information are without money and that makes us wrong. I don't know how many times I've used the word frustrating when talking about this issue today, but I'm going to use it again and say it's really frustrating. It's sad that such wonderful information is in the hands of those who are so unwilling to share with those who want it. Lame.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff, Dallas.
"They have a surprisingly limited set of solo accordion music, but hopefully that grows in time."
ReplyDeleteOne can hope!