Re: [ARSCLIST] The Incompetence at ENHS

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any chance someone could change the subject line one of these days? Either it's about
copyright and public domain or it's about a complaint against the ENHS.

dl

David Breneman wrote:

> --- Mike Loughlin <mikel78_rpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > As you say, this has been decided by theLOC General Council, acting
> > in the
> > interest of Corporate America and not the American people.  If not,
> > then
> > what is the LOC saving this stuff for anyway? The record companies
> > certainly didn't.
>
> Statements like this leave me scratching my head.  What interest
> does "Corporate America" have in keeping these items unavailable
> to scholars?  Never ascribe to sinister conspiracy that which can
> be readily explained by simple bureacratic lethargy.  And the
> LOC, Smithsonian and other institutions actually hold onto things
> for the sake of history, not as a way of doing the dirty work
> for Eeevil commercial overlords.
>
> David Breneman         david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
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