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Sam Brylawski – Preserving Audio History

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Episode 250
April 8, 2016
56:38
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Hosted by Dave Levine

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Changing Digital Formats and New Legislation Create Shaky Ground

U.S. history is captured in the thousands of tapes, vinyl, and cassettes made over the years. But many of these historic recordings are in danger of being lost. This episode looks at how the law incentivizes and hinders the audio preservation work of archivists and sound engineers. Hearsay Culture discussed with Sam Brylawski, one of the world’s leading music archivists and curators of the Library of Congress, the role the law plays in our audio culture so these historic recordings can be listened to and learned from for many years to come.

“In the analog domain, every time you copied these signals, there’d be a deterioration between generations (of audio). The digital domain is challenged as well because there is no permanent digital medium.” – Sam Brylawski

*The one and only Clifford Brown interview we are left with, recorded by “accident” just months before his untimely death and referenced in this interview, is a true testament to how important recorded history is. You can watch it on YouTube here:

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Sam Brylawski

President of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
Sam Brylawski, the President of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections, is one of the foremost experts on audio preservation in the U.S., whose work focuses on preserving our collective sound history from the degradation of obsolete audio preservation formats.
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DAVID LEVINE

Dave Levine is the founder and host of Hearsay Culture. He is a Professor at Elon University School of Law and an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Internet and Society (Stanford Law School). From 2014-2017, he was a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. He is also the co-author of Information Law, Governance, and Cybersecurity (West 2019). A regular contributor to Slate, Dave has been published in leading newspapers, websites, and academic journals in the US and EU.

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