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licensable 1920's jazz recordings?


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Hi John,

The Prelinger Archives has some 1920's material:

 

http://archive.org/search.php?query=1920%20AND%20collection%3Aopensource_movies

 

I downloaded and listened to a couple tracks from :

 

http://archive.org/details/1920s78RecordingsPart2_385

 

May be what you're looking for, and the recordings appear to be in the public domain / open source (cursory glance).

I live at this place, and have found a lot of things to use for free (including George Romero's NOTLD, and the original Roger Corman Little Shop of Horrors).

 

Have fun,

Steven

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Famously, the turn-of-the-century song "Happy Birthday to You" (copyrighted in 1935) is still protected in some countries like the U.S., and earns around $5,000,000 a year in copyright fees from movies and TV shows. So yes, there are some jazz songs from this era that still have to be licensed. Most distributors require a form providing the name of each song, songwriter, publisher, and copyright information (or public-domain information), plus a contract that indemnifies them in case they get sued.

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