A Repository for Multimedia in the Public Domain? 16
8tim8 asks: "I was looking through my uni's record library yesterday (where they have lots of old jazz records) and it made me wonder, Is there anything like Project Gutenberg for audio or video files? I'm not talking about just a place to download old audio or video files, I'm talking about somewhere that has lots of old broadcasts/movies, and has actually checked to verify that what they have is in the public domain. It seems like there must be lots of stuff in the public domain...is there a place that let's people access it?"
wikimedia.org (Score:5, Informative)
Archive.org (Score:5, Informative)
Check out Archive.org (Score:2, Redundant)
Kazaa? (Score:4, Funny)
May not exist. (Score:1)
Wikimedia Commons? (Score:2)
-molo
Indeed! (Score:5, Funny)
Beer, the Breakfast of Champions.
well, there are the community-run sites .. (Score:2, Informative)
undoubtedly there are tons more sites like ours. we recently converted our resources [community-owned hardware on donated bandwidth] to serve torrents, and have more tricky stuff up our sleeves for artists wanting a place to put their works (ipod integration, etc.)
we don't do much quality control, we do ask artists
problem with pre-1972 sound recordings (Score:5, Informative)
Shocking, eh?
Here's a project to try to work around this restriction
http://www.projectgramophone.org/TeleRead-Article
Recently, there's been social pressures on uncommercial works to be released into something called the public domain.
Re:problem with pre-1972 sound recordings (Score:3, Informative)
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_doma
Multimedia. (Score:5, Informative)
Like Project Gutenberg? Oh... How about (Score:5, Informative)
Did anybody notice that Project Gutenberg does do audio [gutenberg.org] and video [gutenberg.org] files?
The wikipedia suggestions are good, also check out Creative Commons [creativecommons.org]; not quite the same, but useful.
Classical music performances over 70 years old (Score:1)
Re:Classical music performances over 70 years old (Score:1)
karadar.com (with Cocoa.itc.it) has old performances of a ton of classical works, which are claimed to no longer be covered by copyright.
In the United States, where Slashdot's server is located, pre-1972 sound recordings are encumbered by state law exclusive rights until 2067. On what basis is karadar.com's claim valid in the United States? Or is it not intended to be valid in the United States?
Re:Classical music performances over 70 years old (Score:1)
Karadar/Cocoa appear to be Italy based, so they probably only researched the US at the federal level, if at all. IANAL, and I'm not associated with Karadar.
Library of Congress (Score:4, Interesting)