“Any rebroadcast, reproduction [emphasis added] or other use of this game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball is prohibited.”
Or not:
“Library of Congress Buys Audio Archive“:
The library will announce the purchase of [emphasis added] the audio recordings on Wednesday. The archive belonged to John Miley, an 80-year-old retired businessman in Evansville, Ind. It includes all seven games of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ lone World Series championship in 1955, Jim Brown’s exploits for Syracuse in the 1957 Cotton Bowl and Sandy Koufax’s first no-hitter in 1962.
“This represents the largest and most significant collection of sports broadcasts in America,” Gene DeAnna, the head of the recorded sound section at the Library of Congress, said Tuesday in a telephone interview.
“It’s an unparalleled body of sound.”
DeAnna, who would not disclose how much the library had paid [emphasis added] for Miley’s collection, said the recordings would be digitized over the next two years and made available to the public in the library’s reading rooms, allowing the voices of broadcasters like Red Barber, Mel Allen, Harry Caray and Marty Glickman to live on.
So if I understand this properly — and I probably don’t; maybe these were done before organized sports started clamping down on such recordings — this gentleman illegally recorded broadcasts and now stands to reap a hopefully-handsome pay day? And everyone is all right with that? Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with it, but it just seems Bizzaro.
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Yeah, I’m alright with it. This is a bunch of commercial nonsense. If they don’t want anyone recording it, don’t broadcast it. Let them keep it to themselves. What this fellow did was preserve history that the teams and networks didn’t think enough of to keep a record of for posterity. If they put so little value on it, what concern should it be of ours? What’s important now is that future generations will have these recordings to listen to and to pour over as an invaluable link with the past. It was his private collection, on his tapes and whatever it took for him to turn the tapes over to the library, is strictly their business and none of ours. If anyone is offended, then bring a lawsuit, or better yet, just don’t listen to any of it. Serves him right. Imagine having the nerve to go against a disclaimer? How dare he!
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