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What is the copyright situation with these tapes? I get the value of archiving and preserving digitally but if I'd invested time and money creating a vhs catalo

What is the copyright situation with these tapes? I get the value of archiving and preserving digitally but if I'd invested time and money creating a vhs catalog of titles I'd be unhappy to see them suddenly all over youtube (assuming they had some appeal of course) with no ability to profit from them.

themodelplumber 7y ago
Good question. At least on the surface it seems only fair that at some point, after the archivist has performed a reasonably thorough search for copyright maintenance, the burden of justification then switches over to the (latest?) copyright claimant. "Yes, we have the internet now. Yes, if you intend to enforce your copyright, your claim should be searchable via the internet. Either way you may still have to reach out and publish notice of your claim." That kind of thing. Kind of like Gutenberg.org texts, with their disclaimer that "we checked and couldn't find any renewal of copyright," or whatever it says nowadays...
epanchin 7y ago
Don't you think 20 years is enough time to profit from a creation? Copywrite law lasts so long, it makes little sense.
- olivermarks 7y ago
  It's a tricky one. If I flew around the world with expensive camera gear and edited up some kind of big budget travel video I'd be a lot more upset about seeing it free than if I had made a 'origami how to' video in 1989 that was very low budget...
monocasa 7y ago
Archive.org is a library in the state of California, and legally has a little carte blanche when it comes to copyright.
incompatible 7y ago
Presumably they are all copyrighted, and presumably IA will take them down if it gets a DMCA notification. Perhaps they could then use a library workaround and make them available to one person at a time, or whatever.
rogerdpack 7y ago
I assume they're using typical DMCA technique of "if nobody complains..." (and only the copyright holder can complain) ...

themodelplumber 7y ago

Good question. At least on the surface it seems only fair that at some point, after the archivist has performed a reasonably thorough search for copyright maintenance, the burden of justification then switches over to the (latest?) copyright claimant. "Yes, we have the internet now. Yes, if you intend to enforce your copyright, your claim should be searchable via the internet. Either way you may still have to reach out and publish notice of your claim." That kind of thing. Kind of like Gutenberg.org texts, with their disclaimer that "we checked and couldn't find any renewal of copyright," or whatever it says nowadays...

epanchin 7y ago

Don't you think 20 years is enough time to profit from a creation? Copywrite law lasts so long, it makes little sense.

olivermarks 7y ago
It's a tricky one. If I flew around the world with expensive camera gear and edited up some kind of big budget travel video I'd be a lot more upset about seeing it free than if I had made a 'origami how to' video in 1989 that was very low budget...

monocasa 7y ago

Archive.org is a library in the state of California, and legally has a little carte blanche when it comes to copyright.

incompatible 7y ago

Presumably they are all copyrighted, and presumably IA will take them down if it gets a DMCA notification. Perhaps they could then use a library workaround and make them available to one person at a time, or whatever.

rogerdpack 7y ago

I assume they're using typical DMCA technique of "if nobody complains..." (and only the copyright holder can complain) ...