Tag: LIBRARYOFCONGRESS

Making its first high-minded and forward-thinking move in recent memory, Universal Music Group has donated 200,000 master recordings to the Library of Congress. A boon to the Library's 3 million-strong collection of recordings, the discs and tapes, from the 20's through the 40's, will be digitized -- many for the first time. We foresee an exhibit at the Smithsonian: "For the Record: The Last Time ...

Copyright law doesn't just pose a threat to file sharers and pirates. According to the Library of Congress, it may very well kill audio archiving, as well. In a recently published study, the Library of Congress concluded that current copyright law poses a formidable threat to music archivers, who must now work around strict regulations that the Library deems "restrictive and anachronistic" in ...

If you jailbreak your iPhone in a country where jailbreaking is legal, can it really be called jailbreaking? That's what American iPhone users will soon have to ask themselves, thanks to a new set of governmental rules approved by the Library of Congress. As the AP reports, the Library has just legalized code-breaking on Apple's smartphone, meaning users can now download non-Apple approved apps ...

Twitter's increasingly important role in relaying news and amplifying surreptitious international events apparently wasn't lost on the Library of Congress. Earlier this month, the organization formally announced a plan to digitally store every single tweet ever twittered. While some, perhaps many, folks scoffed at the move, a tweet archive could serve as an instrumental tool for future ...

If you're on Twitter, and you tweet publicly, you're about to be immortalized in history. That's because the Library of Congress today formally announced its plans to begin digitally archiving every single public tweet ever posted since March, 2006. The Library broke the celebratory news via, of course, its Twitter page, where it also promised that more details would be soon to follow. As ...

When video games first emerged from the primordial tech stew, the initial creators experimented with a variety of different codes, formats, and cartridges. Many of those styles and early evolutionary techniques have been rendered obsolete, though, and are now rapidly progressing toward complete irrelevance. The '70s and '80s witnessed the release of a huge assortment of quality games, but some ...

Man, the Library of Congress is really in love with old film clips and history and stuff. In the last two months, the Library of Congress has posted 41 vintage video clips on its YouTube channel, and more are surely on the way. One of the most viewed and discussed clips is a simple, 30-second offering from Edison's New Jersey Studio. Shot in 1891 onto 3/4-inch-wide film with the ...