[78-L] Youtube notice concerning original 1909 recording.

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 6/19/2012 2:12 PM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On 06/19/2012 11:57 AM, bruce78rpm at comcast.net wrote:
>> I just received a notice from Youtube concerning one of my videos, in which I play an original Edison 1909 Recording of Polk Miller and the Old South Quartette.
>> Here is what part of the notice says "" Polk Miller & the old South Quartet - The Bonnie Blue Flag - 1909 Edison Recording ", may have content that is owned or licensed by IODA.
>>
>> This recording is 103 years old ! and the song goes back to the 1860's and the beginning of the Civil War. Is this claim possible ?
>>
>> Thanks for you help on this.
>>
> IODA apparently licenses a Tompkins Square CD that has that as its first
> track: http://www.iodalliance.com/album/polk-miller/374144
>
> If you can, file a counternotice with YouTube and show them a picture of
> the cylinder. IODA may have rights to a particular CD transfer, but not
> the original record. Any rights there would, so far as I understand
> things, belong to the National Park Service, which would make it public
> domain since the US Government cannot copyright its own material.
>
>
I was sent transfers from disks in their archives and had to sign an 
agreement that I would not make them available in any way.

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