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Originally Posted by HarryT
They were indeed here, but were not legal to download for anyone in the US or the EU.
Whoever may or may not claim to own them doesn't change the absolutely undeniable fact that they are not in the public domain in the US. SOMEBODY owns the copyright, and who that somebody might be doesn't alter the fact that they're not in the public domain.
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I am not saying that they are or aren't, though the situation is more clouded in the case of the OTR programs that they claim to own. Most of them had no copy right notices woven into the opening and in fact the only reason they survived in many cases is because listeners at the time recorded them off the radio live. Then a company purchases copies of them from the collectors and claims to own media that wouldn't have been preserved if someone hadn't made the initial copy. The actual recordings were on either metal disks (which could only be played a few times) or large record like media which often would be dumped in the local radio stations garbage bin after being played on the air. But the same company that claims ownership of Doc Savage etc. also claims to own the OTR recordings. So I don't quite know to trust their claims.