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This will be an amazing resource if it included John's notes as they say. How they intend to get the rights to EVERY song in his collection is beyond me but I
by dazzawazza 14y ago
This will be an amazing resource if it included John's notes as they say.
How they intend to get the rights to EVERY song in his collection is beyond me but I hope they achieve it.
- noonespecial 14y agoThey aren't. They're posting just his notes. In most cases, they can't even scan the sleeve. Thanks to copyright, history will have a fabulous written record of all of the material that was completely lost.
- keithpeter 14y agoPerhaps some of the money will go to preserving the records themselves in an underground archive somewhere in London (or another UK location). My fantasy would be filling in a reader's card, descending the staircase, and reverently removing various treasures from their sleeves and cueing them up on a BBC issue record player (think heavy machinery). But, I suspect you may be right.
- dclowd9901 14y agoReading your comment just broke my damn heart in two. It's situations like copyright that make me just want to go completely underground and write applications that are illegal, unscrupulous and unethical.
- davepeck 14y agoHeartbreaking and infuriating. My only consolation is that I suspect an epic John Peel torrent will pop up a couple years after the archive goes live. Without the bits, the online 'collection' strikes me a hollow facsimile of the real thing.
- noonespecial 14y agoI suspect what you write would only be one of those three things.
- dazzawazza 14y agoOh, well. Oh. OK. So...... yeah, that'll be nice. I am actually sure that most of the Heavy Metal bands he played would gladly hand over rights to the music and artwork. They should talk to Napalm Death.