More on American Radio broadcasts. The Entire NBC Radio Show archive of transcription discs was donated to teh Library of Congress. for more on that, and a interesting read see the following link -
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/radio.html
Since these were recorded in New York and California, they fell under state copyright laws, which were later subsumed into Federal copyright law. The Federal law was extend in
2009, (in a sneaky add-on to the bank bailout bill) to the year 2067.
They aren't available commercially, and they won't be PD for another 54 years,
assuming they are not extended again. Nobody is making any money off of these copyrights, please explain to me why this Corporate hoarding to so important...