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Most record players don't even play 78's. I had to go out and buy some borderline novelty player to play a few Soviet 78's. The whole point of copyright is it'
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Most record players don't even play 78's. I had to go out and buy some borderline novelty player to play a few Soviet 78's.
The whole point of copyright is it's a limited time monopoly that must end at a reasonable time, at which point works fall into the public domain.
The problem is sheet music, music recording, likenesses, photography, and written works all have radically different interpretations of this, or have sometimes become perpetual due to corporate $$$ lobbying.
PS: Fuck the RIAA. They're risking the preservation and archival of human art for all time at the behest of a few big money corporations.
- criddell 3y agoThe IA is risking all the work they’ve done so far. If they want to archive copyrighted material, they should do it and sit on it until the copyright expires. If the hope is that the archive is around 1000 years from now, then what’s the rush to release these 78’s right now?
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoExactly! This is entirely on the IA for refusing to recognize they don't have the inherent right to violate copyright at their leisure. The reason they will keep getting into this is because they keep insisting they aren't doing anything wrong. If preservation of unprofitable content is the goal, sit down with the lawyers and hammer out conditions under which the IA can be given permission to preserve content. A good negotiator can probably even get record labels to pay for it if they think they're getting a copyright win. The IA doesn't respect copyright to a fault and it shows and they're going to keep losing as long as they believe they're entitled to ignore it.
- InSteady 3y agoContent is not necessarily preserved for the good of humanity of no one alive today is likely to access it during the productive years of their life. Who knows what the future holds legally, politically, or more broadly. Whether they are likely to win or lose, IA is fighting the good fight on behalf of humanity. They are entitled to fight that fight, regardless of whether you think they should shrink back and stay in some arbitrary lane that copyright lawyers decide is financially irrelevant.
- ianburrell 3y agoAlso, they could have program where researchers register and then login to access the content. That would go a long way towards supporting scholarship fair use. They wouldn't even have to be strict about joining especially for something niche like this.
- rolandog 3y agoBut, also, what makes someone a researcher? Do you have to forcefully be affiliated to a University, a Newspaper, or similar institution? Then the world would be missing out on work done by independent researchers, journalists, etc.
- dehrmann 3y ago> Most record players don't even play 78's Really? I don't know turntables, but I feel like every DJ wants a Technics one. The first several I looked at on their website play 33 1/3s, 45s, and 78s.
- SoftTalker 3y agoThe classic DJ turntable was the Technics SL-1200. It plays 45 and 33.3. The Pioneer PLX-1000 is a near-copy of the old Technics, it also plays 45 and 33.3 rpm
- dehrmann 3y agoMaybe the classics don't, but the SL-1200 variants here play 78: https://us.technics.com/collections/turntables https://us.technics.com/collections/turntables
- SoftTalker 3y agoWow, I admittedly had not been keeping up but had no idea they still made them, that's cool.
- retox 3y agoYou need a special stylus and perhaps to adjust the tracking force.
- bandrami 3y agoDJ turntables like Technics have selectable speeds but are also insanely expensive. Lots of modern belt-driven players marketed towards audiophile hipsters don't even spin at 45 RPM (which is fine because the 7" records being pressed now mostly are often 33RPM anyways)