Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #84
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Date: 3/15/2005 11:19 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 84
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re Radio Spirits, et al.              [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  It Can Be Done                        [ JayHick@[removed] ]

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:35:20 -0500
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re Radio Spirits, et al.

William Vest III inquired about online comments about
Carl Amari.

In a nutshell, the controversy surrounded the issue of
copyright. Amari maintained that he had purchased the
necessary licensing of copyrighted radio programs, and
thus was the only one who could sell them.

While some radio programs are still clearly under
copyright, it isn't so clear with others. Some other
radio dealers cried foul when Amari would not reveal
information about the copyright holders.

Amari, for his part, maintained that he couldn't
release that information for proprietary and other
such purposes.

Amari, who sold Radio Spirits a few years ago, was
absolutely correct that some dealers were in violation
of copyright by selling programs without the
permission of the copyright holders; but some dealers
were also right that in many cases, it wasn't clear
whether the copyright of a particular show had expired
or not.

In addition, some of the dealers argue that had it not
been for the technical copyright violations many had
committed by distributing several programs, they would
have been lost forever. Personally, I have mixed
feelings about that. On the one hand, it's good that
these programs were not lost forever. However, as a
writer, I take issues of copyright seriously.

Plus, from what I've read, some of the "dealers" who
criticized Amari unfortunately appeared to be upset
about a potential loss of income, rather than any love
of OTR; and also didn't seem to give a damn about the
rights of those who owned the programs. And I put the
word dealers in quotes in those cases, because of
that.

I'd like to think that they were (and are) in the
minority, however, and that most of the dealers who
disagreed with Amari did so out of a love of OTR, not
out of any desire to steal from anyone.

Rick

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:38:25 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  It Can Be Done

Can anyone help Laurie.  Her email is <[removed]@[removed];

I was told that you might be able to give me some advice on our search for a
transcript of our father's appearence on Edgar A. Guests radio program "It can
be done" on station WBBM in 1938.   HIs name is Roy J. Snell

We would appreciate very much any advice you can give us.  Thanks.  Laurie
Snell

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