Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Music you can't get in a library

Planning for musical obsolescence: How digital licensing is destroying our ability to preserve history. Excerpt:
When one goes to the LA Philharmonic site about this recording of Symphonie Fantastique and tries to purchase it, one is directed to the iTunes site, and the licensing terms that accompany the “purchase” — it is really just a license — restrict the user to personal uses. 
At a recent consultation to discuss this problem, it was interesting to note that several of the lawyers in the room encouraged the librarians to just download the music anyway and ignore the licensing terms, simply treating this piece of music like any other library acquisition.
(I wrote an article that had a bit about this.) 

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