Re: [ARSCLIST] Folkways Reissues

[Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK,then why not contact the folks at Bridge ? I'm sure you might convince them to put out a limited-run press of CDs,perhaps as a box set.They have experiences dealing with LOC.Anybody know anyone there ?


                                           Roger

Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Roger, I don't understand what you're talking about. I was referring to the LOC's own in-house 
recorded poetry readings, interviews and lectures. This stuff was all issued on LP by the LOC, circa 
60's and 70's mostly. That's all I'm talking about -- stuff they made and they should own the 
copyright to (if they don't, I questioned the wisdom of taxpayer money being spent to make the 
recordings or the LPs). Commercial stuff is covered by copyrights owned by whomever the current 
owner is. In the case of Caedmon, it's HarperCollins. In the case of Spoken Arts, I believe it's 
Yale University, and I believe Yale is making that material available for a reasonable price along 
the lines of the Smithsonian.

Just to be clear, I don't have any problems with how Smithsonian did Folkways and Cook. What I was 
wanting is for the LOC to unlock and make available all of the audio it recorded and released in the 
LP era. Pricing similar to Folkways and Cook would be just fine. What I was strongly objecting to is 
that this material is unavailable, not that it might need to be sold at a nominal market cost.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" 
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Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Folkways Reissues


> It  depends on what you mean.There is quite a bit of Caedmon,and Spoken Arts stuff out there.But I 
> must admit most of this stuff is on the same level of private- issued psychedelic,punk,and 
> garage,except fewer people are interested in it. Spoken word is not exactly a hot collector's 
> genre,so you're not going to see lovingly produced import CD reissues on the stuff,like you would 
> for The Flat Earth Society,or  private issue 70s funk 45s.
>
> I don't know how many private pressing,or small press run records of readings,or speeches The LOC 
> still has.Has anyone done a good inventory/cataolguing of all their holdings?They may have dumped 
> them,either in the landfill,or at a government auction,back in The Reagan Administration.
>
> If anybody were truly interested in preserving these records,and getting them out where anybody 
> can hear them,whenever they want,I would suggest you spend the next few years,gathering the 
> records together,making the best digitizations you can,and then putting them all up on a well 
> organized ".org" website.
>
>
> Because the LOC,and nobody else is going to do it.
>
>
>                                   Roger
>
> Tom Fine  wrote: The part about the LOC is so true! At taxpayer 
> expense, hundreds if not thousands of hours of poetry
> and lectures were recorded and issued on LPs (hence there are probably master tapes if not
> proof-laquers somewhere). This stuff is moldering somewhere, not available online and I was told 
> by
> LOC staff there are no plans to ever make it available. So if you don't have a scratchy LP bought 
> at
> some library cast-off sale, you are SOL. This stuff the LOC produced belongs to US, it was paid 
> for
> by US, it should be available to US, forever (for a reasonable
> production/media/duping/packaging/shipping fee, of course).
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
>
>
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