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That is not the focus of this book; I don't believe this is a problem libraries have had.
by bpodgursky 5y ago
That is not the focus of this book; I don't believe this is a problem libraries have had.
- ghaff 5y agoYes, in fact, copying for reasons of preservation and research is one of the few copyright exceptions that libraries actually have as opposed to the far-ranging get out of jail free card that many people seem to think they have.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThere are numerous cases of media being perserved strictly through unauthorised copying, falling well outside even the broadest interpretation of any library exception. The Google Books project would be a case in point, as well as (AFAIU) the early stages of the Internet Archive's book-scanning project. Numerous early television programmes were only preserved through off-the-air copies by viewers. Up through the early 1970s, television news programmes did not generally preserve broadcasts, or even have a research library (see Epstein's News from Nowwhere, 1973). I'm not sure where the Vanderbilt Television News Archive (dating to August 5, 1968) originated (Wikipedia claims the Nashville affiliate provided recordings), though I recall a case in which a member of the public, Marion Stokes, recorded nightly news broadcasts for decades. https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/ https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_Television_News_Archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_Television_News_Arc... https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/11/14/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/11/14/recorder-the-mari...