10,000 wax cylinders digitized and free to download
Found on Boing Boing on Tuesday, 10 November 2015
The University of California at Santa Barbara library has undertaken an heroic digitization effort for its world-class archive of 19th and early 20th century wax cylinder recordings, and has placed over 10,000 songs online for anyone to download, stream and re-use.
There are 2,000 more cylinders to come, and you can adopt a cylinder for a tax-deductible $60, which covers the rehousing, cataloging and digitizing of the cylinder.
Wait until the music industry reads about that. Music, available for free download sure has to violate their copyrights and just calls for DMCA notices before they sue the University for billions of damages.