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The Great 78 Project over at the Internet Archive has been professionally digitizing old 78 RPM records for a while now. These records were all made between 1898 and sometime in the 1950s. Over 20 collections have been selected for digital access and physical preservation with the help of George Blood, L.P. and the Archive of Contemporary Music. So far about 26,000 of the 78s have been added to the Internet Archive. Each disc has about 3 minutes of audio per side. Most of the discs are made from shellac and really quite brittle, perhaps even more brittle than today's digital formats.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @07:23AM (1 child)
Apparently copies of many of these records might be infringing some crazy old statutes.
-- http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm [cornell.edu] , scroll down to the Sound Recordings section... (anchors, what anchors?!)
Of course now that we have the ever-so-lovely DMCA, copyrights are forever thanks to DRM you can never legally open...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @01:34PM
That's only certain states in the US, and usually only when the audio is combined with something else, like moving pictures.