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Originally Posted by Hitch
So, vis-a-vis the Kines--even assuming PD, what's the process to turn those into something usable today? Seriously asking, this is not my area of expertise. Would anyone buy them? Or is the idea that "someone" would make them available in a usable form, like a PG-type effort, and then people who want them would download them for free?
Or, for that matter, the early radio recordings? Does it require a PG type approach? (And, WRT Bob Hope, his miserliness and greediness is the stuff of legend, so that is just one example that's highly skewed.)
Hitch
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The process to turning a Kine into something useable today is the same as for any other piece of sound film. The film is run through some sort of scanner and the the output is digitized. You can then do whatever post production cleanup (or none) as you see fit. A Kine is just a film of a televison screen.
There seems to be no market for old live television shows that nobody today have heard of...As to PG, you would run into the performace copyright issues. See the next paragraph.
No Radio recordings from Californa or New York, (and certain other states, it varies from state to state) will be in the public domain until 2067. Period. No exclusions. These copyrights are performace copyrights under state laws that were subsumed into Federal law. (1989? Shrug). They were alway based on at set date in the future - usually 2047. And that is even if the scripts were works-for-hire and allowed to expire after 28 years, (no guaratee of that) the performance copyright holds until 2067. No PG or equivalent is possible.
I mentioned Bob Hope, because his shows were
preserved and at least some were made available for commercial purchase. A few others have been made available, mostly in anthologies. the rest have been "pirate" editions or oblivion...