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"There’s a story in the
Daily Mail that underlines why it is important for
people to make copies. It concerns the re-surfacing of rare recordings of the
Beatles:
In the summer of 1963, the BBC began a radio series called Pop Go The
Beatles which went out at 5pm on Tuesdays on the Light Programme.
Each show featured the Beatles performing six or seven songs, recorded in
advance but as live, in other words with no or minimal post-production.
The BBC had not thought it worth keeping the original recordings, even though
they consisted of rarely heard material – mostly covers of old rock ‘n’ roll
numbers. Fortunately, a young fan of the Beatles, Margaret Ashworth, used her
father’s modified radio connected directly to a reel-to-reel tape recorder to
make recordings of the radio shows, which meant they were almost of broadcast
quality.
When the recording company EMI was putting together an album of material
performed by the Beatles for the BBC, it was able to draw on these high-quality
recordings, some of which were much better than the other surviving copies. In
this case, it was just chance that Margaret Ashworth had made the tapes. The
general message is that people shouldn’t do this, because “copyright”. There
are other cases where historic cultural material would have been lost had
people not made copies, regardless of what copyright law might say."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
